MILITARY TRAINING.
.SPEECH 15V GENERAL (.IUDLEV. J!y Telegraph—Pren.s Association. Wanganui, Last Night, General Godley visited Wanganui today, and this afternoon inspected 24-0 Collegiate School Cadets and 350 Senior Cadets. This evening, after witnessing the boys' physical drill exercises, General Godley said that lie did not hesitate to say that he had seen nothing better in any part of the Dominion. He eniphasied the. need of field work and hoped they would give as many of their halfholidays to that work as they reasonably could. "The day may come," he said, "though we all hope i't never will, when you will be called upon to defend your country, and it becomes you to prepare yourselves for such an' emergency by becoming an efficient citizen army. There is no reason why NewZealand should not have a citizen army as good as it i s possible for any part of the world to produce. The material is here and there, is none better anywhere. The responsibility rests upon you to make the most of it." General'Godley also snid that the Government had decided to issue rifles to all the cadet corps considered sufficiently advanced in their work.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 232, 19 February 1913, Page 5
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194MILITARY TRAINING. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 232, 19 February 1913, Page 5
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