TROUBLE OVER A DRILL GROUND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 120, 13 July 1911, Page 2

TROUBLE OVER A DRILL GROUND.

The Dunedin City Council’s action in refusing to sell a kite at the Oval for military training was traversed at the annual social and prize presentation function of the old City Guards. lr< 1 tei-ant-CoV • 1 Stone ham expressed ins 1 egret that the council had not complied with the request of the Garrison Hal! trustees, which, if repeated in twelve mouths, would, he thought, meet with little opposition 1 side or outside the council. “Some councillors,” said the officer, “are a little apt to pay too much attention to the man in the street. ‘Thu receives belong to the people,’ they say. Are not those who serve in the Territorials of the people? . . . Out hero sports are being considered too the detriment of more important things/’ The Mayor replied pointedly hy assarting that the council believed themselves to he obeying the wish of the people. If they were not, let the people get better men. He had seen three suitable sites which the Government might buy for the purpose, instead of trying to take away the reserves from Dunedin’s young men.