THE BUGLE NUISANCE—AND WORSE

Evening Star, Issue 14316, 15 March 1910, Page 7

THE BUGLE NUISANCE—AND WORSE

•TO'THE EDITOB, Sir,—There appeared in your issue of Saturday a letter signed " Resident," which complained bitterly of the nuisance of bugle-blowing and stone-throwing at Maori Hill. 1 must say that in this "Resident" has my unbounded sympathy; but 1 should like to remark on " Resident's" conviction that "it is for such individuals as these that the new military training will prove most advantageous."' Poor volunteers! if wo might Etill consider ourselves free to use the term. May I presume to ask if "Resident," when he gets rid of th 3 stonethrowers, " with their bad language and raucous laughter," is ono of those unfortunates whoso age condoning them to the companionship of "such individuals as these" in the new military training? Is ho himself about to be compelled to have his ears shocked by their filth and degradation, to have his se!f r respect lowered by uravoidable contact with them? If so, dvca he still consider that "it is for such individuals as .these that the new military training will prove most • advantageous"? H6w about the decent, God-Tespecting lads? Like a number of others who haven't to become (soldiers, perhaps "Resident" will recommend one to "ignore such conduct and despise it."—l am, etc., Spstkiusr. March 14, , ;