LEGION OF FRONTIERSMEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15514, 22 January 1914, Page 10

LEGION OF FRONTIERSMEN.

*r ntrsTTtxxntis. Tkb following hare been admitted to tJje !-«*» 8 *" R. H. Farreil. Matamata; K« It. Laoni. Enra. 86H SI. A. Kreft. 80-u, £?*'«■ w,. D - *■ D «««»n. J**™ Otwoh 6646 U. McMillan, Tapar©»; 6&t7 W. M. Dooll Aaciiacd. &WS F. B. Mjtcfc*U. Pcnsa. 8649 W. 1* White. Pataram. 6650 J. Trewfceela. Te Aroia. 6651 W. p. D»Tidton. New Pl 7 mreih; 8652 W. Oakden, Tupaioa; »53 K. 1 Uan'.er. Tnparoa, 86S-J G. Hyde. Master ton. and 8635 O. Johnaco. Vraoto.

Dunn? th* holiday season members from e-fier district* raited Auckland in Urge numfieri. while several from place* oversea kwfced is on the Auckland men. Captain r. At. lwistleloa. of Guoorse Saoadroa, *" araoagst ike ritiiars. and. aa so' c.atcome of » conference with Captain Eadie. of tfce Aiickiand Squadron, it ha* b**n prao ticairjr ariaajed that a strong troop rrora Acctiand will visit the Gisborne men at ceil gear's camp.

The Auckland City Squadron is takmz a C€>ur» cvgrthmhuk( semaphore njcailLng every Weiicescay ertaiag from euros till nice o'clock.

Th« book* and papers of the eld Auckland •ucutiTc were handed oxer to tea staff officer jar -lew Zealand on Friday. From * jvre;imi»ir7 examination it la quite ex-dent that to straighten an: aflaira generally will be a Kg **!*■ Anyone to whom a bade* was in, Ifirottgh she Auckland execnUTe, and wis ha* not yet recetred it, should write the st*3 officer. Lieutenant £. D'Eaterre. at this cSct.

An- impression teems to exist that appi: cants mnst necessarily have seen active kf▼ice. This is not so. A man who his not seen active service may be a better frontiersman than another who has. There are men in New Zetland who haTe not seen active service not are the Terr beat kind of members of the Leg/on. men who haTe learned to torn tneir hands to almost any frontier occupation, who baTo been accustomed since boyhood to findimr their way thrown dense biosa, to working pack-homes, cattle mastering m rough country, stock-riding anywhere ar.d everywhere, camping in the bosh or amongst the ranges, prospecting for gold. bash wor< of all sorts, cattle and pur hunting, and so on _ The bushmen. stockmen, aHnrial S lo **** tailors, packer*, surveyors, etc.. of Sew Zealand _ include many frontiersmen. Meraoers of the legion are ot a peculiar bwed they may be as wide apart as the Poj?» 10 many respects, and yet they are all one in thai great cemmon brotherhood of 'he men who live or b:ive lived and wonted out and beyond. There can be no hard and fast definition except that a man who cannot drop into a tamp and be recognised as a camp brother is not a frontiersman. All frontiersmen will understand what thai means.

The object of the Legion is to gather to- ? 'titer the men who are of the kind required or troops of scouts and guides, just such men.** composed Driscoll'g Scouts and Remington's Guides, and were included .a to* Hew Zealand and Canadian contingent during the South African war. The Legion i« entirely seif-sapporting and prides itself that.; it costs the State nothing*. Members purchase their own outfits and weapons, and the EJijn who expects to ht supplied with these, things is cot » frontiersman and cannot hop*) to set into the Lesion. The drills •re attended by men who can get to a common centre, but there is bo man so isolated that he cannot get rifle practice, and mem betr* are expected to make themselves exper. in the (treat cardinal frontier art of shooting straight