GENERAL HAMILTON.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 1 June 1914, Page 7

GENERAL HAMILTON.

APPROVES OF CADET SERVICE

BY TELEGRAPH —PHBSf* ASSOCIATION*

WELLINGTON, "May 31. An important statement regarding cadet training was made 'by Sir lan Hamilton to an interviewer. The General was asked, '"You are opposed to compulsory military (training in England as applied to adults? "What have you to say of cadet -training; in Australia and New' -Zealand? Would| you advocate it for England?" 1 'Yes, warmly. In the full' conviction that I was doing a patriotic act," re-\ plied Sir lan. "One of the main objections to compulsion disappears cn r tirely in the case of- cadets who are and have been since the days of Solomon subject to compulsion. When I say that;1 I mean* comoelled to go to school, and so forth."" " The General Is also an advocate of ■bulls-eye target shooting for. the earlier training of recruits as affording a sound grounding "before 'entering on the figure-target course. Asked as to what he thought of the rifle clubs in New Zealand, apart from what he might say in his report. General Hamilton said he had "seen very little of them. "The men of the rifle clubs I have seen,'' he stated, "are three-fourths of them full of life and ■vigor, and would no doubt prove most valuable as the second line or reserve -of the active army.'"