LEGION OF FRONTIERSMEN.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1465, 13 June 1912, Page 4

LEGION OF FRONTIERSMEN.

j : 'imXTNT:iAj).-sui , EOKT.; ; i' ' r (15* Tclecrapb-Spccia! Correspondent.) ' i Aucklaid, Jmie 12 ■ held' ; iii 1 tliG r Tcvvn : :Haltto-mon-ow,. nigltj; for, tho. i: purport) .of -inaugurating!: a 'command of tho.Flcgioa-iOfiiJftoaHersin V 1 . > nicnt"' luisi been:, taken-'; lip.'. enthusiastically ' in -this. promt#! Vimdr subsequent. to _ the ■■ moating licrc it will bo extended, to \Vm- • -lington,". 1 Canterbury;.'; jindi Otago;;.' ■' Huii- " \dreds of.irieii/havtf.'been': applying" for lcn- ' -rolment ; ; icrms, , "thoso.s'applications.' coraine ' from .' all parts; ;off tho. Dominion,.. and ' : ing -to find their. miforms and rifles at ; roliceV^'r-S K^/..', 5')4\.:-V , ?.' r :v; ' i men ;; Jfassoy, v>:Jtb is rfUirniini i'ronv Tiii- ■ liapo disfa'ict-on 'puriioso: : Other "arrange-' monk prevented the I'risaa Minister and 'tho. Minister' tor attending, . ; ilio. )vill ail .idea ■■.bf.'j.hbw.rjfavotixablj" •mcnt; '; ' I.;.re-: gret.vcry nr.ic'n lliat it is not: po-nblc for ■ me': to accept- the.invitation to the 'meet- ; !?i*! iff.:-.: : i ri: 1 ; :;coniicct.ip jvi tl i):. thoi I/o's ion '.'engage-; . /ni«nt^^Theymov(mfent-is>.aiCmost';iisefal : ! Olio, and .] wish it-every siicccs-." . "iVijTiioVJliiu'ster-'foiv .Oefsnco ;, ; :fm - ward"ed the; >VM.lpii3ng--'»)c®aijto; i to>lhp;,horibraryS secrc- ; ■..tai'y :regret;cxcee(Un!;l I >V:tlißi:!r-'slia.ll • ■:b.o%unable- : '-'to. .accent; the.; kniikin vita lion ; !\t'^rtlie ,^Lcgion'; l of l 'l |, i , biitiersiii.ett<' ,, o\vmß , ;to. ■ • nty being obliged : ..to..;]oa.vc';.for-:,Wcllington prior .to Thursday, Pneak'ing. personally;. ; it-'is-unm-ce.-sary for', nu; assure yon • tint your efforts in 'life direction will ' have my: whole-hearted, support. The forlio'd • fo»ree. couk • ; ,;pbsed>6£i-veteraiisfwho l - have ■ seen "active - iseriviceii and-of:, those: pioneers ;;\vho;* spend rthcitillves:-.oh- thoibordersf of ; oilr. : ci vil ised ■: ;fegi6ns;,.:,isF.a : :mbvcinentifh'at;:is-,eacnb , a.lly liriUs.h; and' I fool surethat-;JS*e\y Zea- . OaJiidi'Jjrlubli: has hitherto been m>. loy-al ': is'ji il;' '.'pot riot ic,'.y\vlic ii:-T; occas ioiv ;'j do ih a nt'ec?:' will; not lag behind the .other portions of the JGmpiro now -that .bitr schcMO.. for -tV.siniiip .tho 3'OHt'n . of. tlis Dominion is ';pr(ietieaily , an , assni'ed';'succcsk;v.Tiie,nioral ■KiipportjalTorded; to;mir-i young."'men-by &• .- : ,Logi6n'' ofti'ronticrsnwn-'.'composed. of fried and-experienced men, .would .1)?. incaleulaldo in .the event- oi .i heir services being . iiryi" f'Sh-' ' V'i-X" ■="'; ; \riib; ; ; Di - .. C'eary, Roman .; Catholic Bishoi) of ..Auckland,- 'writes :-rf "Till the :_m;;cfi-des-imi'- process ~of inter- "j ikiiional. di-«annaiiienis set.-;; in, and;ih« U-;nlitif,'.nations, eease.to be in <:!7eet. great' -! armed camps;lthii .duty, of defensive ]n-e----para'ions will eonliiiue.to .press ii'jioii:tho - 'pcdples ;.tha,t. : 'desirb : it«.\ret , ain'. ; thpir:.jiational existence, and. admiration ] the -.-spirit, of palri.otism, of generosity, and of- self-satrifics. which "aniniatM tho 1 nioyAient.""":' Vr ':' if ?■ ■>'< t