GENERAL SIR lAN HAMILTON

Grey River Argus, 2 June 1914, Page 2

GENERAL SIR IAN HAMILTON

*. ! expresses opinion on train ing.;^ .. (Pe r United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 31* An important statement re^ardiingthe cadet training" was made by Sir lan Hamilton to an interviewer. The General was asked "You are opposed to compulsory .military training- in Eng-land as applied to adults, what have you to say of -the cadet trainingin Australia and NeV*Zealand ? Would you advocate it for England?" "Yes, warmly, in the full convictdon that I was doing 1 a patriotic act," .replied,, Sir lan. "One of the main objections to the compulsion disappears entirely in the\case of the cadets who are, and have been, since the days of Solomon subject to compulsion. When I .say that, T moan compelled rto go toschool and so forth." The General is also an advocater of the bull's eye target shooting for the earlier training of' recruits ais afferding- a sound grounding before entering on -the figurcitarget course. -Asked to what he thought of the rifle clubs in New Zealand apart from what he mig-ht say in his report, General 'Hamilton «nid that he had seen very little of them." "The men of the F riflo clubs I h^ve -seen." he stated, "are three-fourth*; of them full of life and vigor, and would no> doubt prove mo=;t valuable, as to the second iline or reserve of the active aTmy."