SIR IAN HAMILTON.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12253, 1 June 1914, Page 4

SIR IAN HAMILTON.

VIEWS ON CADET TRAINING

(Per Press Association.) Wellington, May 31. An important statement regarding cadet training was made by .Sir lan Hamilton to an interviewer. The General was ask n d: "You are opposed to compulsory military training -'n England as applied to adults. _ What have you to say to the cadet training in Australia and New Zealand ? Would you advocate it for England?" "Yes," was the reply, "warmly, in full conviction that I was doing a patriotic act. One of the main objections to compulsion disappears entirely in the case of cadets who arc, and have been since the days of Solomon, subject to compulsion. When I say that 1 mean compelled to go to school mid so iorth." The General is also an advocate of bull's-eye target shooting for the earlier training of recruits as affording sound grounding before entering on the figure target course., Asked as to what he thought of" the rifle clubs in New New Zealand apart from what he might .say in his report, General Hamilton said he had: seen very little of them. "The men of the rifle clubs I have seen," he stated, "are three-fourths of them full of life and vigor, and would no doubt prove most valuable as the second line or reserve of the active army."