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I take this convenient occasion
to deal with the Colonial Defence Committee's Remarks No.
364 R. transmitted with your confidential Despatch of the
10th. March last.
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The Colonial Defence Committee in
the 5th. paragraph of their Remarks suggest that the train-
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-ing and administration of the various Volunteer Corps
should gradually be modified in the direction of more close
-ly associating each unit of the Corps with its own arm in
the regular service for training. They propose that this
should be done by placing the instructional courses and
the annual inspections of the units under the Officer
Commanding Royal Artillery, Commanding Royal Engineer, and
Officer Commanding British Infantry Battalion, who will
detail acting Adjutants and instructional staff to the
units, by arranging for the Annual Camp of the Volunteers
to be held in conjunction with regular troops, if possible,
at the Annual Mobilization of the garrison, and by doing
away with the appointment of the Office of Commandant
which is not recognised by the Volunteer Ordinance of 1893
and is not in the opinion of the Committee necessary or
desirable.
The recommendations of the Coloni-
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