Education and Leadersliip
"COMPREE."
Sir, — Your correspondent "Tempora Mutanbur ' ' is certainly amusing when he asks: "Is anyone from a taxi-driver to a pick-and-shovel man good enough to represent them in Parliament?" Perhaps the following will answer: — ln 1916 the sergeant-major of a Hawke's Bay conipany was afiked to fill in papers for a commission. He wrote farm labourer as occupation. Heaiquarters raved and eaid "it wasn't done," but the commission was granted after the sergeant-major had tilled in fresh papers and altered his occupation to farmer. In 1917 I heard a conipany officer (a taxi-driver in eivil life) tell a platoon commander (labourer in civil life) to lead his platoon (incidentally lead the Silent Division) in what was afterwards known as one of the brilliant niinor operations of the waf. In 1918. at Sling Camp, oiie of the senior staf£ oiiieers stated that sohie of the eadets going to Oxford and Cambridge in 1918 were of a Very poor education, and that if the war lasted many more years the eadet eourses would have to start olf with A B C.— Yours, etc.,
Napier, Dec. 30, 1937.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 69, 14 December 1937, Page 7
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