MUCH IMPROVED.
TECHNICAL COLLEGE CADETS. INSPECTION. BY COLONEL DUIGAN. "I am very pleased with .you, boys, and I think you have done well. You are greatly improved," said Colonel J. E. Duigan, officer commanding . the Northern Command, who inspected the cadets of the Seddon Memorial Technical. College, this morning. The inspection is an annual one. Every- Thursday morning the cadets do divisional training, each company doing something different. This morning A company did company drill, B company had musketry, C company did massed physical training, while D company was divided among a number of sections; one platoon doing the work of field engineers, another learning to us 6 the Vickers and Lewis machine gune, another engaged in signalling, and yet another in medical and stretcher 'bearing work. if • •• Colonel Duigan, accompanied by Captain H. M. Scott, officer commanding the school cadets, made a tour of each of the four companies, inspecting in detail what was being done. Then finally the battalion was massed for a ceremonial parade. It was easy to see that each boy had the feonour of hie school and his battalion much at heart. Colonel Duigan addressed the battalion, and it was then that he expressed himeelf as being satisfied, and pleased with the progress shown.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 261, 3 November 1932, Page 7
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