SENIOR CADET COMPANIES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 543, 19 February 1913, Page 7

SENIOR CADET COMPANIES.

MUSKETRY COMPETITIONS LADIES CHALLENGE CUP The Mayoress, Mrs E. H. Hardy, has received the following letter from Mrs L. M. Godley. Mrs Hardy is prepared to receive contributions from those wishing to subscribe to the fund: "To the Ladies of New Zealand. —I am writing to ask you to help a little in something which I know will interest you all, as almost every lady in the Dominion has sons, brothers, nephews or cousins in the Senior Cadets. There are now 363 Senior Cadet Companies—and will be 400 — who are commencing their training for this year, and it seem to me it would be a help towards getting the very best results from their rifle shooting if ladies all over the Dominion would subscribe anything they like from Is upwards to form a general fund to provide prizeß for each district, to be shot for and called "The Ladies' Challenge Cup." "I would suggest that the Mayoresses, or ladies they may depute, in each district which is a centre of a Senior Cadet company, should kindly undertake to receive subscriptions and collect in that district. I would ask her to forward the amounts. As they came into me I would acknowledge them and publish th« amounts in the papers. "It may seem ambitious, but let us try, if our funds will allow, to have a Ladies' Prize for every Senior Cadet company in the Dominion. We want the New Zealand Senior Cadets to be second to none all. over the Empire, and I am sure this can best and soonest be accomplished by all the ladies joining and showing that they take a very real practical interest in the young men of the future who are to be their defenders. "My husband, General Godley, approves very much'of this idea of asking the ladies to encourage their Senior Cadets, and I trust that my suggestion may meet with your approval and support. Believe me, yours truly, Louisa M. Godley." The proposed "Ladies' Challenge Cup" for every Senior Cadet Company—to be shot for during the annual course of musketry laid down by the defence authorities —to be w6n by the cadet who is the best shot, held for a year, and have his name engraved on it, and be given a little medal to keep for himself. In connection with this Cup there is also a "Dominion Challenge Cup," presented by Lady Islington, for the company that makes the best score in the whole Dominion during the same course of musketry, which will make all cadets very keen to do their best for their company. The fund to close as soon as pssible after February 28th.