VOLUNTEERS ATTENTION!

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4722, 12 October 1872, Page 3

VOLUNTEERS ATTENTION !

To the Editor : Sir, — Never was there a time when these two words were more necessary than now. The Piince of Wales's Birthday is fast appioaching. and with one or two exceptions our "Volunteer Companies are contenting themselves with one drill a week in the evening. If they desire to attain any degree of efficiency for the expected review on that day ib is really time they were bestirring themselves, and turned out for an hour's drill in the morning in* the Barracks, which would do more towards ' ' coaching up " than all the night drills, where they are couped up in their drill-rooms like sheep in a fold. If one coips can turn out and muster in force early in the morning, it is certain that all the rest can. I believe that a certain corps musters for drill twice a week at 6 a.m. in the Barracks, and that they have an average attendance of 33 at every drill, thus setting an example woifchy of imitation by their elder biethren. I look upon the projected "ruirch out" next week as a step in the right direction ; but why are so few companies to be engaged in it ? It surely does not mean that the other companies aie nob well enough up in their drill to wairant our worthy commanding oflicer including them also ? Hoping, sir, that these few remarks may cause a little moie activity to be displayed among our Volunteers, allow me to subscribe myself as One oi- Them.