NOTABLE DISTINCTION.

Wairarapa Age, 6 August 1930, Page 4

NOTABLE DISTINCTION.

WON BY MASTEBTON CADET. The William Robert Friar Memorial Prize for 1929-30 in the New Zealand ' Central Command has been awarded to a Masterton Senior Cadet, Sergeant H. E. Bungate. The award means that Sergeant Bungate is classed as the best and keenest cadet in the extensive area of the Central Command—i.e., Taranaki, Poverty Bay, Wellington and Hawke’s Bay provinces. The prizes are awarded in f- - memory of William Robert. Friar, of t Onehungti, the first New Zealand ’ cadet to go Home and be welcomed by the late Eart Roberts, under the scheme of Imperial Cadet educational journeys to and from the oversea Dominions instituted by the famous Field-Marshal. Later, as a rifleman in the N.Z. Expeditionary Force, Friar was mortally wounded at Passchendaele. Surgeon-Captain R. J. E. Hanson, the honorary secretary of the Imperial Cadet Association of England, presents annually to New Zealand three copies of Lord Roberts ’r book, “Forty-one Years in India’’ to the memory of Rifleman Friar. These books are allotted as prizes to New Zealand eadets, one each to the North‘ern, Central and -Southern commands and are presented to the beet and keenest cadet of each, command. In 1927-28, the Friar Memorial Prize was won by Cadet Sergeant Grantham, ot Masterton, so that E Company twice in three years attained this noteworthy distinction. Sergt. Bungate’s record is classed by Opt. O. V. Sugden, Area Officer, as the best, he has ever submitted for consideration for the award. Besides gaining distinction for himself, Captain Sugden adds, Sergeant Bungato has reflected credit upon the efficient company to which he belongs.