FOUR CADETS
SELECTED FUR training
WELLINGTON, December 20.
Four New Zealand cadets have been selected to attend a four years’ course of training at the Royal Military College of Australia Sydney. They are: N. 15. Cowper (Christchurch). E. W. S. Williams (Christchurch). L. W. Thornton (Christchurch). H. E. Gilbert (Wanganui). They will leave New Zealand ‘early in March, 1934. . The Minister for Defence (the Hon. J. G. Cobbe) said that the decision to resume sending military cadets from the Dominion to the college was one of the results of the recent negotiations between New Zealand Australia for closer co-operation and reciprocity. From 1911 until 1922 all young officers for the pemanent forces in New Zealand had been trained at the Royal Military College of Australia, but from 1923 until 1928 they had been sent to the British Service Colleges. 'No 'appointttients; for: training had been made since 1928.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1933, Page 3
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