DOMINION DEFENCES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 85, 5 December 1912, Page 8

DOMINION DEFENCES.

GENERAL GODEEY’S VIEWS

(Per Press Association.) Wellington, December 4

. Major-General Godloy, interviewer concerning a protest by the Dunedi Presbytery against the Sunday trait big of cadets, said no doubt a safcsfar xcry arrangement would- bo arrived at There bad been no training of cadet on Sundays. If the forces were mold, isod to-morrow, it was perfectly cei tain they would have at least ninet. per cent, of the number of men poster and there would be no difficulty in mat ing up a hundred per cent. Tba would mean a total of 25,000 men, es elusive of senior cadets. The rif! clubs 'had plenty of ammunition avail able, and the reserve was practical!; up to the total recommended by th Colonial Defence Committee.

PROTEST AGAINST SUNDAY PARADES. Dunedin, December 4. A deputation from the Dunodi. Presbytery waited on the Hou. Jat Alien to-day with reference to th military parades on Sunday. It wa. stated that pressure had been brough to bear on certain boys to attend dri. on that day, and the deputation askc; for the discontinuance of such parades The Minister will go thoroughly int .he matter on returning to Wellington