MILITARY ACADEMY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 289, 1 August 1932, Page 7

MILITARY ACADEMY

,/JOLWICH COLLEGE MAY ® .VJfALGAMATE WITH SAISTCHURST. ;.Bnderstood tliht plans have been j c0jisid'eration to close down the jjlilitary Academy at Woolwich, .iarly known as "The Shop," ^ the Duke of Connaught, Lord Sjnei', General Gordon, and a of other famhus soldiers received jtraining1. r^ason is purely one of ecot i Academy, it is also believed, possibly be amalgamated with jarst at a not too distant date. spite of denials and rumours to .Ltrai'y, the scheme to close "The i'i definitely has been under contfion at the Wai1 Oflice and has pigeonholed on two recent ocqal however, in certain high militircles the belief is definite that !jj10us training college will close 1 question last came under redurjng the regime of the Labour jjiuent, and it was only the GenePection that interfered with the ■'etion of a scheme to close the Ly, In view of the present juy scheme in the upkeep of the ra services and training estabjjts, it is believed that the preCoverwnent may hasten forward Jjjjs to shut "The Shop." Fewer Cadets. i ohvious reason for closing the ■m- is that it is not now trainies'atne numbers of cadets. Only jiets pnpsed through' during the ;j months — a big drop Compared the number of "gentlemen f who were trained there besid durng the war. | sumber still remains low in :f the fact that cadets are now jjfor the Royal Corps of Signals 3 as the Royal Artillery and jEngineers, to which regiments j 3 confined previously. |:r-General C. M. Wagstaff, ! jndant of the Academy, when the other day about the ^closing j of "The Shop," stated that he ; :3 official information on the , ;!y steepcd in tradition, "The ^ 3 with its suits of armour, ! ihueklers, and lances glittering j iin splendour in the vast Cen- j •all, present s a mediaeval ap- ; :s, I as first instituted and endowed 1 Ihythe special Royal Warrant tge II. The present building at rihwas erected in 1801, and its * ated walls are reminiscent of ®r and of Windsor Castle.