CADET TRAINING
! '■ AT WELLINGTON COLLEGE Four days' special training was concluded by the First-Cadet Battalion (Wellington College) yesterday afternoon, when the cadets were inspected by Major Weir, N.Z.S.C., who congratulated the boys on the excellent progress they had made,. Captain Balham was in charge of the training, wliieh included instruction in nearly all the branches of the service. Musketry and parade-ground drill formed the ground work for more advanced operations under Lieutenant Hislop. Yesterday morning cadets advanced upon Mt. Victoria, where a scries of advance guard operations was carried out. Signalling was another phase of instruction. Machine-gun practice was carried out with live ammunition, and the artillery carried out their operations with I blank ammunition. Tho battalion, which consists of 13 ofiicers and G73 other ranks, put in some five hours a day ot most instructive, work.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 11
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137CADET TRAINING Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 11
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