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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1695, 24 August 1904, Page 20

After reviewing the Christchurch cadets on Wednesday at Hagley Park his Excellency tho Governor thanked them for the splendid display they had given, and expressed surprise at finding them so exceptionally well trained. It reflected the greatest credit on the officers. “I take a peculiar interest in the school cadet movement, as I was a cadet myself once, though I should not like to say hoAV long ago,” remarked his Excellency. Much greater strides have been made in New Zealand in the establishment of cadets corps than in England. there were a few public school cadet corps at Home, but the movement had not taken such root as in this colony where he believed, there were 11,000 cadets. Now Zealand’s example, ho trusted, would be followed at Home, for the advantages of training and discipline were invalua/blo to the boys themselves, and the teachers were also enabled to get into closer touch with their scholars, which redounded to the advantage of both. He did not think tlie school cadet movement could bo said to encourago a spirit of militarism; that had not been the result of the volunteer movement at Home, where it had spread to a tremendous extent, and ho thought they had no reason to fear anything of tho mm m