PETITION OF THE SCHOLARS OF THE HIGH SCHOOL, DUNEDIN.

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1864 Session I, G-01

G.—No. 1.

PETITION OF THE SCHOLARS OF THE HIGH SCHOOL, DUNEDIN.

PRESENTED S4ra .XOYKMB.iCK. 18GJ, AND ORDERED TO HE PRINTED 25th NOVEMBER, 1861.

AUCKLAND: IRG4.

<!.— No. 1

PETITION OF THE SCHOLARS OF THE HIGH SCHOOL, DUNEDIN.

TO THE HONOURABLE THE SPEAKER AND MEMBERS OE THE HOUSE OE REPRESENTATIVES OE THE COLONY OE NEW ZEALAND, THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE UNDERSIGNED SCHOLARS OF THE HIGH SCHOOL, DUN ED IN, HUMBLY SHEWETH : — That your memorialists, to the number of more than forty, have been now for some weeks under military instruction, and, if they may judge from the praise bestowed on them from time to time by the Major Commanding the Militia, their progress has been satisfactory. From the remarks which have fallen from those whose opinions are very generally respected, your memorialists learn that the establishment of a Cadet Corps, duly instructed, armed and in uniform, is likely to inlist a spirit into the rising generation which would materially nourish the most patriotic feelings, while it would infuse a 7-ecruiting element among the population, and would tend to give efficiency to any measures of defence that might hereafter be necessary. Your memorialists are glad that they have been allowed to take a part in the volunteer movement; they feci that the lessons they learn, and the spirit it encourages in them, are already producing a beneficial effect on them, and they earnestly desire to be officially recognised as a portion of the Volunteer force. With this view your memorialists approach your Honourable House, and pray that they may receive at your hands such encouragement as it may be in your power to afford. And your memorialists, as in duty bound, will ever pray. [Here follow 54 signatures.]