TERRITORIALS IN TRAINING.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 60, 9 March 1912, Page 9

TERRITORIALS IN TRAINING.

THE CLAUDBLANDS CAMP. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, this day. To-day A battery Field Artillery (Auckland), G battery Field Artillery (Hamilton), Auckland brigade ammunition column, Mo. 3 Field Co., N.Z. Engineers, and infantry brigade signal company go into camp at ClaudeJands racecourse. The camp has been pitched during the past two weeks by members of the Royal N-Z. Artillery, and everything is in readiness for the arrival of the men, when the active work of the training will be entered on. The camp will break up op Sunday, the 17th, and during the week field-firing will be practised, probably over a portion of the Kukehea Swamp. It is expected that his Excellencey the Governor will visit the camp on Friday next, the loth. Officers in charge ol the various units will be: A battery, Major Shorson and Captain MeGilp; G battery, Lieuts. Narthcroft and Ewen Galbraitli; signalling conipany, Captain T. H. Dawson and Lieuts. Cook and Cotton; ambulance corps, Lieut. A. J. Moody. There were good musters at the railway station this afternoon of A Battery, Si.FA., No. 3 Field Company, N.Z. Engineers, Bth Auckland Infantry Signal Company, and the Auckland Brigade Ammunition Column, which go into vamp at Ihe Show Grounds, Hamilton, from jla?".b. 9 to 17 inclusive. The nert body of territorials ta go into camp will be the 3rd (Auckland) Regiment, who will be at Papatoetoe, from March 16 to 24. Both the Hamilton and Papatoetoe camp will be visited by Major-General Godley and His Excellency the Governor.