COMPULSORY CADET SERVICE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 11, 1 June 1914, Page 8

COMPULSORY CADET SERVICE.

APPROVED BY OENBHAL HAMILTON By Telegraph—Press Association. , Wellington, Last Niahfc. An important *vt,«nren» regardia» cadet training < wis made by &V fan Hamilton to nn interviewer. ' Th* <3«n----cra-I -wag nafced, "Yon- nro o™>ir,sd to conipufawy military training in Bii»land as apsied to adults. What iia-vi you .to sfcy of cadet training in Australia and New Zealand? Would row ;ul locate it tor England!" "Yes, warmly, in the full conviction that I was doing a. patriotic aef." relied Sir lan. "One of Hie main objeeti'ons ito compulsion disappears entirely in the case of cadets vim are and have been since Uie daj* of -Soloimon sub-jest to compulsion. Wiien 1" say thtti 1 mean comprised to- go; to sii'ool. and so forth."

The General is also an adroc&te of target shooting for the earlier training of -renvtiits as nffonlintf a -wind grounding, before eihtcring oil t'lie figuretarget courss. Asked as to whnjt he thought of the ride clubs in -New Zealand, atparl frcm what Bie inigiht .soy in -his report. Gen eral 'fiamiilton said Jife had .soon very little of them. "The men of tlu rifle clubs I liave seen," he slated, "are three fourths of theim full of life find vi#n«', nndwouM. no doubt prove irioSt valuable. a« rt.he -wond line or reser.l : f' Hie active army,"