DEFENCE POLICY.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19971, 4 July 1930, Page 15

DEFENCE POLICY.

torn EDITOB Of TOT TM39 discussing the second artiele you have publishedon "Defence," a friend stated that "when the King visited Christchurch (as Duke of York); 14,000 Volunteers- and- Cadets were reviewed by him in Hagley Park. • Could you please state" from your report oa the occasion if this.number ia • cor- . Wet, and if so, how tho parade state ~«■» made up; Thanking you in antici- \ patioa.—Yours, etc., p. j. WILSON. Waimate, June 30tb, 1930. I "The Press" of June 25th, 1001,* fives .' the following summary of the parade state .«*'(*• review of volunteers, and' cadets on -Hsfley Pvk North on the occasion of the :«4*t *f the Duke and Duchess of York (now : tWf Majesties the King aad Queen): — Headquarters staff 7 Vaval artillery and submarine miners - .. • • 467 . Weld infantry .. ..•• ' i^l * JUM artillery ... - «* i General artillery ..* s •• "* •< i. Sooth African Contingent ■• • "~2"V- »nginaera .. .. ••,,.,£? 1 Infantry .. .. • • 5481 J p Oy«|» Corps ..Ss V Bearer Corps ..' •• „.*- " Cadets .. •• 291 ° ,4 Bands .. .. .•••__!?* •: i '". Total .. .. ~11.053 ' . & -X* another part of the report detailsare J « »hkh van on parade and totalled -3HN§. An tetewstlnf statement is that with ■2* eauwpttoa, of 900 mounted men from lP»f» «st Wftote of the mounted troops J>efflSW* «» Ctnkrtury, and every m»a owned SHjv' ewtav]