CADET CORPS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 151, 20 March 1908, Page 8

CADET CORPS.

NEW REGULATIONS.

follo } v '"S regulations, with, respect *o 'the formation of cadet companies, are gazetted Cadet companies. iff. connection with colleges and high schools may be formed into battalions, the, minimum number of companies forming such battalion being throo On tho formation of battalions'the staff shall bn provided by the .schools;. Two companies of artillery.cadets and one company of engineer cadets may lie formed in each of 'tlib four principal districts, .;'Where kuch companies are formed one company of artillery cadets shall bo attached' to the division of garrison, artillery Volunteers, and the other company to the battery of field. artillery Volunteers, m the military district to Which i 7i • I > olon e- T ho Porapany of engineer cadets shall be attached to the companies of engineer Volunteer's in the military district to which it belongs. ' •. . Both the artillery and engineor cadet companies aro to bo exercised in the sanie musketry course as laid down for infantry cadetcompanies. The organisation and drill shall be that of tha arm of the, service to which they are,attached.

To earn capitation tho-following conditions must bo complied with:— (1) Each member of a cadet corps must attend during tho Volunteer year at least twenty-four, parades, each of which shall be of at: least ono hour's' duration. (2) Each member must be osercised in the annual musketry course, as laid down for that year by the Council of Defence. ' .

! (3) The company must. bo, : .up to or above tlio minimum strength; • (4) At Jeast twenty-fiyo members must qualify for capitation. Cadet companies other than, those mentioned above shall be attached to adult Volunteer companies or battalions in tlio district m which they aro serving. Timidity and shyness 'are rapidly disappearing. Uashful people ard soon shaken up and improved by our strenuous modern life. nuist all bo self-reliant, enterprising, and independent nowadays,; and this means death to timidity .—"Prensa," Lima, Peru. An export duty would perhaps prevent the emigration of our artistic riches, which aro being.carriedoff..daily by weathly foreigners. 1 lie . United States, which has no past, is making an artistic future .with tho spoils of ours.r-"Petit Parisicn," Paris. I

For an increasing number of -women life simply consists to-day in I 'getting thinner." And to attain this all-important. end they will endure almost any painful regime, giro up all pleasure, spend a/fortune, and," worse stm, risk hoaltb and eveu life.— 'Gaulois;" Paris, .. . .