Unless the great emergency arises, what will happen will be
that the War Office will invite Volunteer units to take on specifies pieces of work in such a way that the ordinary vocation of the Volunteers will not be interfered with. By a system of rota, Volunteer units will be able to maintain patrols or sentries at posts near their headquarters. For example, though a Volunteer battalion might not be able to get more than one day's work per week out of each individual, it might quite safely be able to guarantee to furnish fifty men each day at a particular spot. They would not always be the same men, but as long as the fifty were all trustworthy men that would not matter. It is obvious that the big units would be able to do much more useful work by rota than the small units. Therefore recognition should clearly lead to a strong recruiting movement in order that all the cadres may be full to overflowing.
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