TRAINING OF CADETS.
[Our Parliamentary Reporter.]
Wellington, This “Day.
Tho Government have ordered light rifles for boys of the Sixth and Seventh Standards in the Public Schools. Probably about twenty of the rifles will be allotted to each school as prizes for drill, and will he used in shooting by the different boys in their turn. Government were mot with a difficulty as to control of Cadet Corps, since it was felt the Premier explained yesterday that Education Boards might take exception if the control were taken out of their hands. The military training of youths in the Colony he said ought to belong to the Defence Department especially as instructors are under the iL-fence department, but the question is to bo referred to the Board of Education for their opinion.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 12 July 1901, Page 3
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131TRAINING OF CADETS. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 12 July 1901, Page 3
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