PROPOSED CADETS' TEAM FOR BISLEY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9189, 8 September 1908, Page 4

PROPOSED CADETS' TEAM FOR BISLEY.

In advocacy of the suggestion that a team of ten boys from Mew Zealand should be sent to England to take part in the competitions at Bisley next August,' Major Robb, writing from Auckland to the Prime Minister, sa y S "l beg leave respectfully to bring before your notice at this early date the advisability of. sending Home a team of New Zealand lads to compets for the Empire trophies at Bisley in August of next year. Now," when the Dominion is congratulating itself on the lustre which her youthful representative has shed upon her, would seem a fitting time to bring the matter before your Parliament with the purpose of securing a grant for next year's representatives, so that no time may be lost or confusion caused in the equipment and drilling of such a team. Apart from the fillip which it would give to the cadet movement, the advertisement the Dominion would receive would more than pay for the entire cost. I have received papers from different Harts of E igland, all eulogising the action of the New Zealand Government in sending a representative so fur across the seas. I have no hesitation in saying that a team of ten boys who would worthily represent the Dominion, could be picked from our ever-grow-ing army of cadets."