HONORARY FIELD OFFICERS.
The Defence authorities have aotod very wisely in determining that no field officers are to be allowed to single companies of volunteers. It is so seldom that we have an opportunity of praising the department for its action in regard to the volunteer force, since the new regime was established, that we gladly seize the present opportunity of doing so. Honorary field officers attached to single volunteer oorps are, of course, a military absurdity. The oiroumstances under whioh Honorary Major Purnell was gazetted to a Wanganui company, in order to give him the pretext of a title to compete for thp Volunteer Championship, amounted to a positive scandal. The attention which we called to that case has no doubt had the resnlt now announced, that companies are no longer to bo allowed honorary majors, colonels, or field marshals. Had the regulations not been altered, we believe several companies intended to elect honorary officers of the last-named rank.
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Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 87, 14 April 1888, Page 2
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