How We Do Things.
All hurry and scurry when a wai scare is afloat, and utter disregard o: men and weapons when the olouc has cleared away. The following paragraphs taken from the N.Z, Times affords an illustration of whal we have stated better than anything else could do : — We understand that the Cabinet has authorised a vote of a large sum of money in connection with the defence organisation of this colony. A field battery is to be established for service wherever needed. Its headquarters have not been determined upon, but probably they would be in Wellington as the most central position. New guns and equipments of the most modern pattern arc also oie provided. The volunteer force 19 also to be increased so as to bring it up to a greater strength numerically than at present ; and the regulations are to be altered with a vipw to increas ng the number of parades per annum.
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Manawatu Herald, 15 March 1898, Page 2
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157How We Do Things. Manawatu Herald, 15 March 1898, Page 2
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