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i Members of the Manchester Rifles are reminded of the pnrado on the 27th instant. The member for Napier, Mr Swan, who has taken considerable interest in volunteering, does not regard Colonel Fox's report with the highest possible favour. Speaking in the financial debate yesterday, he said that while the volunteers had done excellent work for the colony, they had been very badly treated in this report. They had been treated in anything but a proper way. If corps were to be disbanded, let it be done ; many wealthy, painstaking, and, as he knew, efficient officers had been insulted. The report ought to have been treated as confide»tal. Colonel Fox was no doubt a capable officer; but his sweeping condemnation of the corps at Napier, considering that his visit was a very brief one, was anything but fair.- -Times.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 14, 17 July 1893, Page 2
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