HARD ON THE OFFICERS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10573, 30 September 1910, Page 2

HARD ON THE OFFICERS.

By Telegraph. i (Special' to the Oamaru Mitil.) ■Wellington, September 30. "At whose dictation"" demanded Mr j Hogg, speaking on the proposal to ex- i tend the age limit for Territorials to ' 25 years; "at the dictation of those we 1 saw the other day with cocktails ill their heads and horses' .tails too and tinsel and 1 gold lace and trimming and jewellery on their manly chests; mountebanks, there is no other name for tliem. A large sum of money is lo be spent on officers who are only ardently waiting for the time when lazy billets will be found lor la/.y men." "'That is unite true," said .Mr Taylor; "they will-sponge on uk." Mr Taylor added that officers were parasitical ; they carried, nothing and hewed nothing. The average market gardener of any nationality, he added, docs more for the country than these military officers. Mr Hogg: They are drones. 3\lr Taylor: Yes, and drones are killed off regularly. "We arc trying to stop their breeding.