MILITARY TRAINING

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 42, 19 February 1935, Page 9

MILITARY TRAINING

CADETS FOR AUSTRALIA

MINISTER'S STATEMENT

Commenting upon the Government's decision to send seven additional secondary school cadets do train at the Royal Military College of Australia (Sydney) , as announced in' yesterday's "Post," the Minister of Defence (the Hon. Si G< Cobbe) stated that the increased number of cadets now being dispatched for •training at the Australian Military College was due to increased armament .and to .vacancies likely jto occur in the commissioned ranks of the Permanent.Forces in the next few years. The boys sent to the college for training were required to undergo a four years' course. : "The boys this country has'sent to the Royal Military College of Australia," remarked Mr. Cob,be, "have been of first-class material, and the lads sailing on Friday are of a particularly fine stamp as commissioned officers in the jmaking. All the boys have decided to adopt the military as a professional career; they are keen on their work and they established high efficiency in their different cadet corps. One. can look forward to seeing these boys in four years' time as fully-fledged soldiers—efficient in their profession and ready to impart some of their military knowledge to the men they will have under instruction. "'■ They leave New Zealand for their hard training,1 which it will be, with the good wishes of the schools with which they were associated and of the Defence Department.":- . ■■-'■ . * .'. '-.'■ Candidates for cadetships are required to attend a four years' course and must have passed the university entrance examination showing that.they obtained at least 60 per cent, .of the maximum marks in mathematics, and that other subjects in which they passed included modern languages and physics-plus-chemistry (of physics or chemistry). Each candidate must also be a member of a family established and resident in New Zealand. No cadet will be permitted to marry while a student at the college. ■ - ' The minimum height for candidates is sft 2in (in socks), while the chest measurement must not be below 34in. In all other respects candidates will be required to reach the standard of physical fitness laid down for entry to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.