MILITARY TRAINING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 44, 20 February 1913, Page 7

MILITARY TRAINING.

SPEECH BY GENERAL GODLEY. (Por Press Association.) Wanganui, February 18. General Godley visited Wanganui to-day, and this afternoon inspected 240 Collegiate School Cadets and UoO Senior Cadets. This evening aftei witnessing the boys’ physical drill exercises, General Godley said that be did not hesitate to say that be bad seen nothing bettor in any part of the dominion. He emphasised the need of held work, and hoped they would give as many of their half-holidays to that work as they reasonably could, as they reasonably could. “The day may come,” he said, “though we all hope it never will, when you will he called upon to defend your country, and it becomes you to prepare yourselves for such an emergency by becoming an efficient citizen army. There is no reason why New Zealand should not have a citizen army as good as it is possible for any part of the world to produce. The material is here and there is none better anywhere. The responsibility rests upon you to make the most of it.” General Godley also said that the Government had decided to issue rifles to all the cadet corps considered sufficiently advance! in their work.