DEFENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 7 March 1912, Page 5

DEFENCE.

DOMINION'S REPRESENTATIVE ON i• . IMPERIAL STAFF. • r NEW ZEALANETAPPOINTMENTS. . (United; Press • Assogiation.) . ' " 'WELLINGTONS March x 6: • • , Colonel' A,;, W. Robing Adjjutant'-Gene-ralyi§ r®pointed, to the Dominion. a,i> ofSthfe Imperial General bf'tneWar Offi.ee. • London, in accordance \vith : an agreement entered/into by theVoversea>Dominions at the • recent Imperial. .Cpttfeyence, that each should send a senior officer as its representative. ' .LieutenantColonel Wolffe (is to be Adjutant-Generril during Colonel Robin's absence. .LieutJjColqnel Abbot will; succeed Lieut.-ColoneJ-; Wolffe in command , .of ,tlie' Auckland: Military .District.; These changes wjll date from January 20th; neiti -/• / ' •' The following, .appointments <■ take effect from, July 10th next ;—Lieut.-C6l. Bauchop to command the' Otag° Military . District; Lieut.-Colpnel Smyth, now,(XO. there, to the command of; the-Canterbury District, vice Lieut.-Colonel Hawkins, deceased. „ ' v. ' i'OUNG COOKE TO BE RELEASED. CHRISTCHURCH, March 6.' The Prime Minister ~(Sjr; Jv Qy Ward)-, who is also Minister of announced to-day that the ..Cabinet, had deciued to release young Cooke, of Christchurch, from gaol, where he was serving a sentence of fourteen.days. . .''This has been done with. the concurrence; of the;-: Commandant (General Godley), ' explained Sir Joseph, "the Act leaving been, affirmed on a second occasion, there was Ino desire to vindictively pi'ess it- fur- ! ther. Cooke will, therefore, be ■ reJ leased at once.." ■ COMPULSORY SERVICE, NEW ZEALAND'S EXAMPLE. (Received 11.5 a.m.) | LONDON, Wednesday. • i The "Pall Mall . Gazette" says that I New Zealand has .'a knack of leading all' i patriotic and, Imperial causes.] .arid has, | now demonstrated that compulsory seri vice is not abhorrent to the democracy by recruiting 1300 more than were liable for service, thus setting a splendid ex- j | ample to the Mother Country.