GENERAL HAMILTON.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVII, Issue 4, 5 June 1914, Page 4

GENERAL HAMILTON.

j FAVOURS t’UM I’ULSiUN FOB j CADETS. | | An important statement regarding j Cadet training was ma.de by Sir lan : Jfamillon to an interviewer at WMJI- - ington on Saturday. i The General was asked; “Are you ! oppo>ed to compulsory military trainMug in England as applied to adults? | What have you to say of Cadet ; training in Australia and New Zealand? Would you advocate it for England?” “Yes, Avarmly, in tlm full eonvietion ili.it 1 was (ionm a patriotic, .c-t,” replied sir lan. '■One of tin; main objections to compulsion disappears entirely in the ease of Cadets wiio are. and have bemi Miiee i.ho days of Solomon, subject la e.-mpul-sion. iWhen I my (hat, I mean compelled 10 go ic soho.-J and si forth.' - The General is al<o an advocate of bull's-eye large!-shool ing for the earlier (raining of recruits, as alloi'dinc a sound grounding before entering on a future.-target course. "When asked Avliat iie thought M’ the title i hio> in New Zealand apart from wiiai lie miMn >;:> in ids report.. General iiamilion said lie had semi , very liith' of them. “The men of : the ride clubs I have seen," he • staled, “are three.fourths of them I full of life ami vigour. and would no j don id prove most valuable ;u the I second line or rc-erw of the aetiAv Army."