THE MILITARY DRILL.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 103, 21 December 1868, Page 308

THE MILITARY DRILL.

We Don't in way indenrity

«. - r- V 1 ft-fTa thejEditor ofi fXggfaw&jfa Say Tjmeal ;]' < inc, the, number r for,. those irien. whom; "he x v, f)qes hembkmassoom fours >? /to this;? .entitlq-;-iheni to ? ‘certificates'. of ppm^etjaici?: ,It: maybe; alVTveiy . but. I; jum much 1 mistaken, if either Te Kooiii or Titokowaru would acknowledge it in anyother ’“terms thansby beating - us. ' - I ' Sirj I. think ;,tha.Hanhaus would consider it rnucH.-mprey daugerous meet a few of us who ar e,good shots fch an all‘ the Pakehas in the Island wßo«c&b6w' nothinghf the use of the rifle. beyond presenting armsi Why not give the men balL,practice ? The Volunteers, have not fired a shot, for the last' two' years, arid thany-pf the Militia declare that at the last ball practice ‘they -not only missed .the target, but the Bluff also!—that is, 1 when their rifles managed to r go off!! , Kbw^ ? as; the. third class ; Militia have been called out, why riot; give the> men rimmunition' 1 for’ ’practice, aud cause a little rivalry among the different companies ?, The . officer pommanding threatens ,that unless .the men pay attention (and learn how to ee form fours ”T) he will give there extra,' drill. ' Now 1 , I beg to ; throw: outriher following suggestion in the hope that it may be acted upon, viz. That the officer commanding should compel every man: to make a, certain number of poirits, or let them have ball’practice until; they. do. . „ . •

-In iconclusion," sir, I may remark that,l look.upon ball practice .as very, 'essential; . <c forming fours,” however, is, in my humble’ opinion, all bosh;— 1.am, &0. y : ; \\; . ’

' "' y ’ •-'No BosH t NTapier, Dec. 15,'1868, •