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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

First Battalion Otago Defence Cadets

First Battalion Otago Defence Cadets.

The Otago Battalion of Defence Cadets is made up of the following twelve corps, namely, A Company, Waitaki High School Naval Artillery Cadets; B Company, Dunedin High School Rifle Cadets; C Company, Invercargill High School Rifle Cadets; D Company, Dunedin Engineer Cadets; E Company, Port Chalmers Naval Artillery page 135 Cadets; F Company, Caversham Rifle Cadets; G Company, Mataura Boys' Brigade Rifles Cadets; H Company, Wakari Rifle Cadets; I Company, No. 2 Co. Dunedin High School Rifle Cadets; J Company, Oamaru Rifle Cadets; K Company, Invercargill Rifle Cadets; and L Company, Bluff Rifle Cadets. The staff officers of the battalion are: Major J. S. Hislop, Captain and Adjutant J. Nicholson, and Lieutenant and Quartermaster Brydone.

Major John Stuart Hislop , Commanding the Battalion of the Otago Defence Cadets, is a son of Mr. Walter Hislop, of Dunedin. He was born at Dunedin in 1872, and educated at the Otago Boys' High School where he was a member of the cadet corps. Major Hislop joined the G Company, Dunedin City Rifles, in 1898, as lieutenant, and, on the formation, in May, of the same year, of the first Battalion of the Otago Rifle Volunteers, received the rank of captain and adjutant. This rank he held till September, 1903, when he was given the command of No. 1 Battalion of the Otago Defence Cadets, with the rank of major. Major Hislop is a member of the Board of Examination for the Otago Military District.

Captain James Millar Nicholson , in the New Zealand Militia, Adjutant of the Battalion of Otago Defence Cadets, and formerly senior Lieutenant of the No. 2 Company New Zealand Engineer Volunteers, was born at Lawrence, and educated at the Boys' High School, Dunedin. He first entered commercial life in the employment of Messrs Hogg, Howison, Nicol and Co., and was for six years with Messrs Scoullar Bros. before entering the firm of Messrs Rattray and Son in 1902. Captain Nicholson joined the High School Cadets, in 1885, and left with the rank of sergeant, and in 1898 he became lieutenant of the Engineer Volunteers. He was appointed Senior Lieutenant of the South Island Battalion of the Fourth Contingent, and when Captain Harvey died at Ottoshoop, in 1900, he became Captain of B Squadron. He was with the Fouth Contingent right through, and returned to New Zealand with it. He left again as Captain and Adjutant of the South Island Regiment, Ninth New Zealand Contingent, and on the illness of Major Jackson in South Africa was appointed to the command of the regiment, and brought it back to New Zealand. Captain Nicholson is a member of the Dunedin Amateur Boating and Dunedin Swimming Clubs, and was treasurer of the Otago Football Association for many years. As a Freemason, he is attached to Lodge 844, English Constitution.