DRILL IN SCHOOLS.
(by telegraph—press association). Wellington, Last Night. In reference to military drill in schools, a committee of the Board of Education recommended that all boys should be drilled and that all of a minimum height of 4ft Gin, who may volunteer should form cadet battalions, to be composed of six or more companies of a maximum strength of 100 each. That the teachers should be officers, after passing an examination, and that non - commissioned officers should be boys who have passed a qualifying examination, and that a school of instruction be established. The committee stated that they intended to make the undertaking as self-supporting as possible by means of subscriptions, donations, entertainments, military displays, &c, and that the Government intended to supply 500 miniature MartiniHenry rifles, haversacks and accoutrements, The report was adopted.
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Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 293, 26 May 1898, Page 2
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135DRILL IN SCHOOLS. Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 293, 26 May 1898, Page 2
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