FIFTY YEARS AGO

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22685, 24 March 1937, Page 10

FIFTY YEARS AGO

PRESTIGE OF UNIFORMS The strictness of tho regulations in regard to the non-intervention ° uniformed members of the New Zealan Volunteer Force in attairs of a denonu national or sectarian character 50i \ears ago is well illustrated by the following paragraph. The extract, which is i™' ll the Nkw Zealand Hkkai.d of March - > 1887. states: — ''The major-general commanding c phasises the importance ol pre veil tnir,' volunteers from taking any rectal iaii i political action as a military force, a 1 the necessity ■ of preventing, as tar possible, the ..introduction ot oleinei of discord into the ranks is so ob\wis that the major-general i resolu'i take most severe steps in the event 01 this order being disobeyed. It mus clearly understood therefore tna trifling alteration of uniform or fact of not carrying arms will DC garded as an excuse, Yoluni j their private capacity are not req to abstain fl'oln an action the.> - deem proper in such matters, on- • must remember what is due to . uniform of the colony and not • a hostile feeling in the, minds ot to community by wearing it upon s occasions."