HIGH SCHOOL CADETS

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20743, 1 March 1939, Page 8

HIGH SCHOOL CADETS

WEEK OF MILITARY DRILL FIELD DAY AT HAMILTON EAST About 250 boys comprising the Hamilton School cadet, corps are in barracks for a week at the school grounds under the command of Major S. E. Senior. The barracks began on Monday and the boys will be discharged on Friday afternoon at the conclusion of a marching display. A feature of the week of military and physical training will be the field day to-morrow afternoon. The cadets will parade through the town shortly before 10 a.m., the route march being by way of Ward Street, Victoria Street, across the traffic bridge, down Grey Street to the Hamilton East Rifle range. In the vicinity of the range there is an extensive area of broken country which has been selected for the operations. Smoke candles will be employed by the boys during the afternoon while it is also intended to use Verey lights. During the week the cadets have been engaged in marching drill, physical training, including swimming and life-saving in the school baths, judging distances and ceremonial drill with arms. The senior boys have been handed out normal service rifles while lighter arms have been provided for the younger members of the corps. A good deal of responsibility has been thrown on the shoulders of the N.C.O’s. and steady progress is being made under their "direction and with the assistance of the senior officers.