REAL ENTHUSIASM
Seldom is the Territorial asked to give more than one evening a week to training—and then, nn evening's drill seldom occupies more than an hour and a half. Real enthusiasm was displayed by the original members of the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry, who in 1865 paraded every evening in order to obtain the utmost efficiency, says the Christchurch "Press." There were no tramcars in those days. There were two ways of going to drill —by riding a horse or by "Shanks pony." The enthusiasm cf the "old-timer" is all the more commendable when it is remembered that in those days he had to pay an annual subscrption for the privilege of belonging to the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 15, 18 July 1939, Page 10
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118REAL ENTHUSIASM Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 15, 18 July 1939, Page 10
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