FARMERS AND TERRITORIALS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9794, 18 October 1917, Page 5

FARMERS AND TERRITORIALS

* daylight parades to cease. STATEMENT BY SIR JAMES ALLEN. The continuance of daylight Territonal parades was brought before Parliament yesterday afternoon as a matter of great urgency by Air J. t, .u. Hornsby, M.P. for Mairarapa. Representations had been made to Run, he said, by a great number of farmers who complained very much indeed that the daylight parades wore still being continued, though this was the dairy-farmer’s busy season Would the Minister for Defence, ho asked in compliance with the urgent request of the dairy-farmers, at once give orders for daylight parades of Territorials to James Allen said that a conference of Group officers on that very subject had just been held in Wellington and the conference recommended that Saturday afternoon and evening Territorial parades in the country should be done away with. Mr Hornsby: “They are still going ° D Sir James Allen replied that the report of the conference had only come before him in the last day or two, but ho proposed to agree to the recommendation to stop the daylight lerntorial parades in the country districts and also the senior cadet parades; but not in the towns, as ho thought it was to the advantage of the boys that they should parade in the towns. (Hear, hear.) In the case of any essential industry exemption from parades was granted on application to the Group officer of the district. Ho would stop Territorial parados for the time being. (Hoar, hear.)