MILITARY TRAINING SCHEME.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 211, 5 September 1911, Page 7

MILITARY TRAINING SCHEME.

FORMATION OF UNITS. POSTING, ENROLLING AND EQCTFMEXT. (By Telegraph.—rress Association.) WELLINGTON*, this day. Instructions to the diiferent posting committees iu connection with the ' military training scheme have been issued from heacquarters. The prinLed memorandum gives some idea of the work involved in connection with the formation of the various units. The work will be carried on as soon as the medical inspection has ceased, aud, as the special instructions tor officers commanding districts points out, the posting, enrolment and equipment of the forces must, from the present time until they arc completed, take precedence over all else. It is emphasised in the official intimation that the drill centres must be carefully chosen. The - more closely the drill of the various arms can be made to coincide the greater will be the facilities for training. Each battery, garrison artillery co npany, field company of engine rs and signal company will be drawn from one centre. As it is necessary that to ensure their complete efficiency they should train as units, after the posting each man of the forces will be personally notified by mail as to the company squadron or battery to which he has been appointed. " The question of how men beyond the raditia of compulsory attendance from a drill centre are to be trained, must," says the memorandum, "be for the further consideration of the regimental authorities. Such cases can only be solved by the exercise of ingenuity on the part of those intimately acquainted | with local conditions. There is a solu- ! tion to be found in every such case if sought." The posting committees will be formed as follows: —President: The officer in charge of the area group: members the adjutants of the mounted rifle regiments concerned, the adjutant of the field artillery brigade, or an officer of the R.N.Z.A. detailed to act for him (in groups from which men for field or mountain artillery . units or engineer units are drawn); the staff officer to the coast defence commander (in groups from which men for garrison artillery units are drawn); staff officer for senior cadets, a permanent officer to be detailed by the officer commanding the district to carry out the posting to the medical units in the district (in groups from which men for the medical units are drawn). The following will also attend: The area sergeant-majors of the group and the sergeant instructors of units concerned.