FIFTY YEARS AGO

Nelson Evening Mail, 21 May 1917, Page 2

FIFTY YEARS AGO

(From The Mail of 21<?t May, 1867.)

The Volunteer movement seems to have received a very decided impetus in this province, and more especially among the more juvenile members of the community. We understand that the No. 1 Company of City Cadet Rifles has increased so largely that it has been deemed necessary, to form a second Company _ which will be.,officered from the present' non-commissioned officers of the First. We noticed, a short time since, the organisation of a Rifle Caclet Corps at Motueka, under very, promising auspice? ; another Cadet Corps is, we hear, in process of formation in the Waimeas, and enquiry, we are told, has been made of Captain Lockett as to whether the services of an adult, as well as oi* a •Cadet Corps in the Takaka and M.otupipi districts, would be acceptable to the Government? At the same time, in the face of these facts, we may regard it as' Somewha- inexplicable that, although the. recommendation for. the organisation of an adult Artillery Corps in Nelson lias been forwarded to the Government at Wellington, only 40 names have as yet been enrolled on the list. There can be no question that the Nel-> ( son Artillery Company will be a. firstrate corps, and we trust to hear that many more names have been added * to the roll, the more especially as when the Government authority arrives, a public meting will be called for the election of the officers, and it is highly desirable that all persons intending to join the corps, should do so before that time. j