OUR YOUNG CADETS.

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 51, 1 March 1909, Page 3

OUR YOUNG CADETS.

THE CAMP AT PAPAK.URA.

The much-discussed encampment of cadets will eventuate to-day at Papakura. At 10.15 a.m. this morning a special train conveying a large party of. cadets left Auckland for Papakura. Other detachments were picked up en route, and fully four hundred cadets are'taking part in the encampment, no less than eighty proceeding from Onehunga alone. Colonel Loveday, Inspector-General of Cadets, is in command of the camp, Major Robb being in command of No 1 Battalion, and Major Kay in command of. No. 2 Battalion. The sectional captains are: Captains Walker (adjutant), Kenny, Bullen, Gibbs ("A" Battpry), Williams (Onehunga Rifles), Gatenby, and Matthews. Dr. Purdy will be in attendance. The following clergymen will also attend the camp on the days mentioned:—Monday, Rev. Gillam; Tuesday, Rev. Luxford; Wednesday, the Venerable Calder; Thursday, Rev. Gray Dijion; Friday, Rev. Fortune. Morning find evening prayer will be read daily. [ Six cooks are at the camp, and th« most complete arrangements have been made so far as the commissariat department is concerned. The tide being again favourable this week, bathing can be indulged in daily. Fifty bell tents nave been provided, so that there will only be eight boys in a tent. The regulation allowance on active sen-ice is seventeen men to each tent, but in view of the warm weafJier it was thought best in the interests of the boys' health to make this generous provision of space. During the week Colonel Davis, In-spector-General of Defence Forces, will inspect the cadets whilst they are in camp. A sports meeting will be held during the week. On Wednesday an express train will leave Auckland at 1 p.m., conveying visitors to the camp. The members of the Board of Education will visit the camp on Wednesday or Thursday. (Bj Telesrapo.—Owu Cjrrespomlent.) PAPAKURA, this day. The parade state shows a total of 450 cadets and 12 officers. The camp is beiug pitched.