DUNTROON MILITARY COLLEGE

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 July 1912, Page 5

DUNTROON MILITARY COLLEGE

A VISITOR'S IMPRESSIONS

GOOD WORK BY NEW ZEALAND CADETS.

[BY TELEGRAPH—SPECIAL TO THE STAR.]

CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The New Zeaalnd boys at the Duntroon Military College, says a visitor who is closely acquainted with the institution, have been doing well, and have taken to the duties with, energy. The only trouble of the authorities seems to be to get the academy well known, and to attract young nie-n to it. Only five boys instead of ten went from the Dominion in the last draft, in the rigorous conditions for enentrance being too much for the other applicants.

Chiefly by reason of its prowess in games, Duntroon Military College is becoming well-known among people who otherwise would give it little attention. Footballers from the public schools of Sydney have visited the College and have been defeated. The members of those teams have carried back to the City stories of the college and its work in turning out future officers for the defence forces of Australia and New Zealand.

So far Duntroon has had no opportunity to prove itself. It has not turned out any finished article, yet, because the fidl course of the first draft of cadets has been only half completed. The two years devoted to "cures" have been passed and the first draft will enter the military side of their education. At the conclusion of the four years' course they will pass a final examination, and then will probably be sent to some British regiment for n year or so before returning to their own country to take up posts in the defence forces. Up to the present there are 80 boys in the College, and this number will be swelled by forty each year until the full complement of 160 is reached. Of the 80 cadets in Duntroon at present fifteen are from New Zealand, four of the first draft being from Christchurch.