JUNIOR CADETS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8184, 27 July 1912, Page 1

JUNIOR CADETS

INDIGNANT OFFICERS PASS RESOLUTIONS. FBESS ASSOCIATION. • AUCKLAND, July 26. A meeting of Junior Cadet Officers was held this afternoon to consider criticisms recently passed on the junior cadet system. Remarks recently made by General Godley were tho subject ot very emphatic comments, and the following resolutions were unanimously carried: (1) That this meeting of Junior Cadet officers strongly protests against any action calculated to bring Junior'Cadets under the control of the Defence Department.

(2) That this meeting of Junior Cadet officers expresses its general satisfaction with, the present management of the Junior Cadet force, and strongly disapproves of such proposed alterations as turning it into a body of scouts or depriving the boys of their uniforms. (3) That this meeting of Junior Cadet officers requests Major D. W. Dnnlqy to represent its views to the authorities at Wellington. (4) That, in opinion of this meeting of Junior Cadet officers, no change should be made in (a) the control of Junior Cadets, (b) the syllabus of work for Junior Cadets, without either submitting proposed alterations to Junior Cadet officers for their opinion or conferring with representatives appointed by them. (5) That the Junior Cadet officers of Auckland, having read the remarks of General Godley before the Education Commission on the inefflclen y of the teachers who carry the title of officers but have no commission, desire to state that several of those teachers, in reliance upon the regulations, have qualified themselves by examination for those commissions, only to find that those invaluable commissions have been finally withheld.