GENERAL HAMILTON'S VIEW.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13395, 1 June 1914, Page 9

GENERAL HAMILTON'S VIEW.

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON,^ this day. An important statement regarding cadet training was made b\' Sir laft Hamilton to an interviewer. The General Aras asked : "You are opposed •to compulsory military training- m England as applied to adults. ' What have yon to say of cadet training m Australia and New Zealand? Would you advocate it for England?" Yes, warmly, m full conviction that I was doing a patriotic act," replied Sir lan. "One of the main objections to compulsion disappears entirely m the case of cadets, who are and have been since the days of Solomon subject to compulsion. When I gay that, I mean compelled to go to school and so forth."'

The General is also an advocate .of biiU'e-eye target shooting for tlie earlier training of recruits as affording a sound grounding before entering on the figure target course.

Asked ns to what he thought of th© rifle clubs m New Zealand, apart from what he might -soy m his report, Grensral Hamilton said he had seen very liittle of them. "The, men of the rifle »clubs I have seen," he stated, "are fthree-fourths of them full of life and [vigor, and would no doubt prove most I valuable as the second line or reserve 'of the active, army."