ARMAMENTS AND MEN.
NEW ZEALAND DEFENCE ACT. MR. MYERS’ ATTITUDE -APPLAUDED. Palmerston N., April 15. There was some discussion on the Defence Aet at a general meeting of members of the Palmerston North •Jhamber of Commerce last evening, and on the motion of the president, Mr. M. A. Elliott, seconded by Cap.ain Preece, the following resolution was carried without a dissentient voice:—“That this chamber desires so express its appeciation of the attude shown by the Minister of Defence in connection with his expressed intention of enforcing the law relating to the compulsory provisions □f the Defence Act, and that this resolution be forwarded to other chambers and local bodies in the Dominion with the request that they shall endorse the same if- it meets with their approval.”
Mr. Elliott said that- the new Minister’s attitude was strong, resourceful and reasonable. Ninetynine per cent, of the people of the Dominion was in favour of the Act, but the small minority opposed to it endeavoured by making a great noise to make it appear that the majority was in eppositon. It was one of the finest Acts ever placed on the Statute Book. -ITH H.B. BATTALION JUNIOR CADETS. HEADQUARTERS AT HASTINGS. The Headmaster of the Hastings District High School (Mr. L. F. Pegler) has received from Lieut.-Colonel Hyslop, of Napier, a copy of a lettei received from Captain A.. A. C. Stevens, Officer Commanding the New Zealand Junior Cadets, who states that he has pleasure in approving of the recommendation to form a 4th Hawke’s Bay Battalion of Junior Cadets ’with headquarters at Hastings, and consisting of the companies and detachments of Hastings and the surrounding schools. He has also pleasure in approving of the appointment of Captain Hudson to command the new Battalion, with the rank of major. The appointment and notice of the formation of the new, battalion would appear in the cadet orders in due course, 'the Hastings cadets previously formed part of the Ist Napier Battalion.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 103, 16 April 1912, Page 5
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