A HINT TO THE GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1147, 7 June 1911, Page 4

A HINT TO THE GENERAL

THE TIMES WE LIVE IN,

One of the speakers at the civic welcome wbch was tendered to General Godky at Napier the other evening, Mr. P. S. M'l.oan, raid, at I lie right time and place, something which has wonted saying for a long time past. deferring to Iho question of wn ice, Mr. M'l.ean said that I here had been a certain amount of evil iciem in rcgaii to tho details ami arransonifiiU ol tho scheme, but for his part Ik- had never come across anv who, Ijoin.T Jiabk- lor fcrviw, had th« lightest, hesitation in accenting tho responsibilities imrfod upon thorn under the Act. He wi-hoil to point out to tho General that it would l>e necessary to dvo more consideration to Iho meii now'than in Ihe days when tho Now Zealand contingents wen to fcon.ii Africa. Politics had taught the men io dtpeml upon the Government to such an extent jtluvt if an.vthing was wanted it was a case of running'to tlio tiovorijiiiont This had extended so far that even'in their sports the young men appeared to haw lost, to a largo extent, that spirit of independence- which was noticeable when he (Mr. M lean) came here some thirty years ago. If he Genev>l found Hint there was a little slackness of discipline he wished him to knowthat it was not Iho fault of the young men themselves, but of tho system under which they had l>cen brought up.