OUR SCHOOL CADETS.
Tht Goven or's fa-e wreath* d with a smile of unmistakably genuine pleasure as he passed through the lines of tie High Sciool Cadets his guard of hcnour~on Thursday last. The boys were a strikingly typical company of the rising New Zealander, and in their modest uniforms, which lack the virtue of most military attires in building up the wearer's proportions, looked a promising lot of national defenders. When the spirit of Imperialism is only more or less alive, and the country somewhat heedless of threatened international complications, it is refreshing to see that the "young idea" in our leading schools is not being entirely neglected. Lord Plunket is said t« have a stronger regard for the cadet movement than any other notable personage in the Dominion, which fact might possibly stimulate the boys to added interes: in their duties as cadets.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9173, 24 August 1908, Page 4
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145OUR SCHOOL CADETS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9173, 24 August 1908, Page 4
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