SUNDAY PARADES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8827, 31 May 1907, Page 3

SUNDAY PARADES.

By a recent volunteer regulation a Sunday parade could be counted for a daylight parade, or personal payment could be made to volunteers attending. Apparently as a result of an objection having bcon made to this regulation by the ministers of Podding, as will bo seen by the Hon. Mr McNab’s letter, the regulation is to bo altered. Office of the Minister of Defence, Wellington, 29th May, 1907.

Eev. W. F. Stent, Feilding. Dear Sir, —I further reply to your letter calling my attention to the regulation of the Department relative to Sunday parades. I have the honor to inform you that I have given careful consideration to the representations made by yourself and the other signatories to the letter, and I have ascertained that the Manawatu and Feilding Mounted Bifles were paraded for inspection by the Inspecf or-G oneral on Sunday, the 28th ult. lam of opinion, andi my colleagues are at one witii ms in the view I take, that parade of volunteers ought not to be held for the purposes of earning capitation, nor for earning payment of any moneys otherwise payable to volunteers for parading on Sunday, unless the Sunday should intervene while the company is in camp. I am, therefore, having the regulation altered so that there will not bo a repetition of the circumstances which brought about the complaint.—Yours faithfully.

• Eobert MeNab, Acting-Minister for Defence,