OUR SENIOR CADETS.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 25 September 1912, Page 3

OUR SENIOR CADETS.

A Ladies Prizi

Mrs Godley. wife of the Officer Commanding the Territorial Force in New Zealand has sent us the following appeal to the Ladies of New Zea> land, which we publish : —

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. The}' will soon bs r.ommeTicing their training for tins year, and it seems to me it would be a help towards getting the very best results from thnir riflo shooting if lades all over the Dominion would subscribe anything they like from Is upwards to form a general fund to provide prizes for each District, to be shot for and called, " The ladies prize ", I would suggest that the Mayoresses or ladies they raayjdepute in each district which is a centre of a Senior Cadet Comjnny, should kindly undertake to receive subscriptions and collect in that District, giving her name and address in the local paper, so'that all might know to whom, to send, and I would ask her to forward the amounts as they come in, to me. We would acknowledge them and publish the amounts received 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 shewing that they take a very real practrcal interest in the youngmen of the'future who arc to bo 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,