AN EXPERIMENT IN MOBILISATION.
Per Press Association. | CHRISTCHUROH, June 2. Lieutenant-Colonel Cooper, officer commanding the Lyttelton defence forces, explained to a reporter to-day some proposals he had made m regard to the mobilisation of the Garrison Artillery Corps at Lyttelton. It was his intention to carry out a mobilisation scheme m Lyttelton next month. With the permission of the Harbour Board and the Mayor of the town, he intended to have three rockets fired off at the end of the wharves one night at a signal, and he hoped to be able to give prizes to the first twenty men of the first corps which arrived m the drill shed, which was the alarm post m case of war. The men would be fully equipped, and afterwards he would take them for a long route march.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7812, 3 June 1909, Page 3
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136AN EXPERIMENT IN MOBILISATION. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7812, 3 June 1909, Page 3
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