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MIRRORS FOR MILITARY. Mirrors have recently been installed at an Aldershot barracks to enable Tommy Atkins to inspect himself before going oh parade. It is an infantry regiment which occupies the barracks, but mirrors have for some years played an important part in the training of cavalrymen. Most riding-scchools have large sqare mirrors on the walls, fixed at a mounted riian’s height from the ground. The novice is directed to look in these as he passes, and so learns to “hollow his back.” and to avoid the various faults into which budding horsemen' fall. Oarsmen, too, find mirrors use. ful as aids to training, though, to those ignorant of the value of the device, the sight of a man rowing in a tub fixed to the bank and looking at himself in a'large mirror may seem merely amusing.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3264, 6 February 1926, Page 14
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140CORRECT DRESS Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3264, 6 February 1926, Page 14
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