SIR IAN HAMILTON
INSPECTION OF CADETS AT PALMERSTON. Press Association. PALMERSTON N., May 18. General Sir lan Hamilton, accompanied by General Godley, inspected, this afternoon, the No, 6 area group of cadets at Fitzherbert. The hoys assembled at the show grounds, and marched to the scone of tho manoeuvres, a distance of about threo miles. Hero attack and defence was carried out. 1036 cadets taking part.
The manoeuvres were watched carefully by the general. He criticised the delay on the part of some of the companies in the attack, and also tho holding out of the scouts till the last, as they would all have been shot in actual war. He considered the boys carried out their duties well, and complimented them accordingly. The presentation of tho cups won for shooting during the season then took place, followed by a march past, the cadets returning to Palmerston to entrain for their homes.
The veterans, sixteen in all, were also inspected.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8736, 19 May 1914, Page 5
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