LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 74, 25 October 1916, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Wanganui Press Association telegram states that two lads were fined £5 each for not attending pa-| rades by ,Magistrate Hewitt this morning. A Paris cablegram states that The Academy' of Science awarded the geographical prize of £4OO to Sir Ernest Shackleton in consideration of his explorations in the Antarctic. Weather forecast.—The indications are for westerly winds strong to gale backing by west to south. The weather appears likely to he cloudy and unsettled, rain probable. The weather will probably become colder.' The barometer has a falling tendency but rising soon.—Bates, Wellington. jtDunedin is said to be very much worried about the anti-shouting .regulations. The local evening paper has quite a detailed wail, written by a person who knows what drinks are* and when to say "When!" The writer points out that in the old days when two or three men went into a bar they knew everyone was going to shout, and "helped themselves, sparingly." "Now, since a man only goes in for a drink when he wants one be takes a real drink, and the price of liquor and the'full-sized drink at sixpence leaves very little profit." A contemporary adds: That is a really lovely touch—that "takes a real drink." What a joyful scene it must be in Dunedin to-day to see a Scot, with a saxpence firmly clutched in the right hand, marching with conscious rectitude into a bar and buying himself a "real" drink.' But the Dunedin publicans are talking of raising the price!

As new regulations are now in force relating to Cadet companies, the following particulars may be of interest. With the exception of Senior Cadet companies of secondary schools, every other cadet company will be organised as platoons in accordance with "Infantry Training, 1911." In each platoon the sections will be made up as follows: All lads now joining who have had no previous military training, and those who in ' the first year of their training as senior cadets, irrespective of ftge or size, will be placed in one section. Boys in the second year of their Senior Cadet, training will be similarly grouped. In every case a cadet will only be grouped in a section with those of his own year of service provided he has been passed as efficient by his commanding officer. Where a cadet has not so passed he will be kept back in the section until he has been passed as "efficient," when he will be transferred to the next year section. Thus it may happen that inefficient cadets of three years service may be grouped (or trained) in one section along with lads of only two years or even one year's service. With regard to cadets being at a distance from a drill centre they were not expected at one time to attend para'des. This practice now ceases. Every cadet not in possession of an exemption certificate granted by a magistrate must fulfil obligations under the Defence Act. It should be remembered that where a boy was only obliged to drill one hour' per drill'night -he Ims now io drill 11 hours for 34 parades a year, instead of 50 hours.