RINGING OUT THE OLD.
VOIiU2i"TSE3S 33ISBA3TDED. : ptAY THE "LAST POST." (Received 5.15 a.m.) LONDON, April 1. All the yeomanry and volunteer regiments have been disbanded and the men are mostly enlisting in the new territorial army. Xhe event was celebrated at dinners, eoEcerts, mock funerals and, in most cases, by tfce ceremonial of the blowing of the "Last Post" [Under the terms of the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act, 1007, the volunteers will be transferred to the Territorial Army, and under section 28 they may be transferred by Order-in-Couneil in'counties where associations have been formed, but it is understood that no volunteer will be transferred without his consent. Under the same Act the Yeomanry are to be transferred to the Territorial Army to form its cavalry, and certain concessions, presumed to be temporary, are being made to them in the matter of pay, which, will be at a higher rate than that of the Territorial Infantry. In addition, the Yeomanry will supply to the Expeditionary Force on mobilisation fourteen squadrons (2170 men and jU officers) to act as divisional cavalry.]
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 80, 2 April 1908, Page 5
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