DIVERSITY VOLUNTEERS.
I, ' SIX HUNDRED OFFICERS. i I
BOY SCOUTS RECOGNISED.
ft! m DRILL IN SPARE TIME. ';> i . (Received August 12, 1.5 a.m.)
jli- London, August 11. ; j Six hundred members of tho Cam--1 bridge University Officers' Corps, including 20 "blues," have applied 1 for commissions in the special reI serve and the territorials. »: The Government has recognised I the boy scouts as a non-military body [I; of public service.....
[•A. conference of London business 'men decided to organise a fifth line pi defence, utilising the spare time | of Londoners to learn the rudiments j of drill and the use of the arms on | the''principle of the Irish volun- \ £ecrs. ,■ m Mr. Lewis Harcourt, Secretary of j State for the Colonies, has given jJNunehara Park, Oxford, as a conjjvalescent hospital and connecting j base hospital for wounded soldiers.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15685, 12 August 1914, Page 4
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