A DEFENCE MINISTRY.
The n&w (Ministry should certainly know how to ihandle the Defence question if military knowledge on the part of fits .members counts for anything. The .Prime' Minister has shoul- . dered a musket, 'while the Hon. Jas. Allen holds the rank of Kent-colonel, and has- commanded the -O'tago division- of ithe- (New iZealand (Garrison Artillery. The Hon. Heat-on Rhodes won the Queen's imedai and four [clasps during the South African. War, land during She same campaign the Hons. -P. QMO. 18. '.Fisher was second in ,command of the 2nd Battalion of the 1 10 th 'Contingent, .receiving a medal Kind clasp for his services. The rank j of surgeon-captain in the Te Ore Ore (Mounted Rifles is held by the Hon. Dr Pomare, while the Hon. W. Fraser .is a heen military enthusiast, and was born in India during the strenuous days of the Mutiny, his father being Captain Hugh iFraser, of the sth Madras Light Cavalry.— Auckland Star.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10689, 16 July 1912, Page 4
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161A DEFENCE MINISTRY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10689, 16 July 1912, Page 4
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