EXTRA EDITION.
JUNIOR CADET SYSTEM
ITS RE-ESTABLISHMENT URGED,
(8T TBLEGRAPH.—SrKI.a 10 7HE POST.)
AUCKLAND, This Day
By unanimous resolution the Education Board yesterday decided to urge the Government to re-establish the junior cadet system. The Chairman (Mr. G. J. Garland), in proposing the motion, said that up to January, 1913, the boys in primary schools were receiving the rudiments of military training. Then the Minister for Education (Mr. Allen) issued a letter to education boards abolishing the junior cadet system. That letter would make history, and he ventured to say that it would be history which would be of particular interest to Mr. Allen. While he had nothing to say against physical drill, it had not taken the place of the cadet system, nor had the Boy Scout movement. He took strong exception to the methods followed by Mr. Allen. Why had he not made the intention of the Government public at once, and not only written to the education boards? The cadet system had accomplished a useful purpose, and that was the opinion of 50 per cent, of the parents. Mr. M'Kenzie said the junior cadet system had produced the Anzacs, and they wanted the system back. (Hear, hear.)
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 153, 29 June 1916, Page 8
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