TERRITORIAL NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 138, 11 June 1914, Page 8

TERRITORIAL NOTES.

(By RIFLEMAN.)

FORTHCOMING PARADE-. Engineers.—Monday nights. Div. ional Signal Compauy. -Tuesday night 3 A Battery, Gunners and Drivers.—Alteruaie Thursdays until further uotice.

There win be uo daylight parades in or about the city null! September. Tnesc parades have been so arranged as to cause it minimum of interference with the ordinary athletic diversions of the men in training.

List of parade nights are now being prepared. The _id Regiment has already issued its program mc. A Company (Major K. <I. Cox. commandingi will parade en iucsday nights, coumiehcing .luly 7: the No. 4 I'laioon tAvondale centre) oa Thursday night---, commencing .inly _ ; b Company iM-ajor M. X. Atkinson, commanding! will •parade on Monday nights, commencing .luly 6: C Company (Major TV. Kay, cominaiidingi will parade on Wednesday uights, coiamenciug July 1; and D Company (Captain TI. .1. Do.rom. commanding! will parade on Thursday nights, commencing July -'.

The next examination of N.c.O 's for firsappointments to commissions will commence on Tuesday, July T. A supply of the conditions and syllabus of examination (amended 1014) has been distributed to all O.C.s units and group officers, and further supplies can lie obtained ou application to district headquarters. Ii is understood that there will be some forty candidate- in tho Auckland district, and arrangements have been made for the holding of a ten dayscourse of instruction at Auckland under Captain Alderman, Instructor in infantry duties. aud Captain Hawkins, adjutant 3rd. Regiment.

_ The following officers have qualified for promotion by examination iv all subjects for the next higher rank as indicated--Tactical fitness for command, parts 1 and " Major A. Tattersall. 4th (Waikato! M R~ : mlvjects ie) and (di. Captain A. TV. ri' Moray and Captain ts. ... Allen. 6th iHaurakl. IJegiraent: subject idi. Captain \V. IT Ilorton. N.Z: .Medical Corps: subject dn" Lieutenant TV. 1.. Ranstead. 4th (Waikatoi M.1!.. Lieutenant .1. B. Necley. 3rd (Auckland! Regiment. Lieutenant .1. Hubbard and Lieutenant . . L. Algie. 6th (Haurakil Regiment, and Lieutenant 11. !_. (j. Smith L"n. attached List (b).

Tn the wTitten portion of the promotion examination hetd in February last the fuliowlng officers passed: Tactical fitness for eow_i:.nd. part 1. Major AY. R. C. Walker Tte i \V_ik_toi „\j.R.. ,Maj 0r ~: sherson. X._ Pfcld Artillery. Major A. Pi„gg,_, S r_ , Auck ; lai.ll Regiment; .subject (di. Captain E. If Northeroft. U .Kid Artillery. Captain D 11. Kirker. .._. Harrison Artillery, Captain . • . ,- .- r '.. 1 . 5U ' N-A. "egtment. and Cap. t.-iin'll, VI. King. Unattached List (bl; The _.__?" ir ' J ' ec a y lamination for promotion of ortjeers will lake place on Tue.di. e_!f d ld_,l 8, . nrt f °" . W, " S *™2% candidates, on army form B_os_. must reach f,!- f r "' r ... adn ". r, 'T s " ol '"ter than the Mrd ir.h^aie^'f.^sr^r^. 6^-"

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r.AILTVAYMEN JUST "IT" " H__V"„__P? y iu .n iri '»i"n Colonel E. H. private Hfe -"" ot , Tail ™** transport ilu ml rai v.."v-. eUCra ',i m . ~!- c r of - Nc »" * oi he \'e_ >c , Pl,lcd ,. Ul,> IMm >' <St_ 2otV_. w__. h ff __. t._i._ er __^^l i.nXle_ aUaU l a / 0 the St KailW . . ludcd 011 Saturday last a siccffl weeks camp at Mahanga Bay. In the evening a smoke concert wa_, ghfii by the officer, and N.c.U.'s, Colonel S&jg -,'. no ,vas In command of t_c eanin) presiding. Responding lo the toast oMim "Hallway __t..alio„."\_|o„_. f_W_St the men to do their best to make the corps the most successful in the Territorial forces. He wanted them alwav. to be spick and span, and. wlicu they donned their uniform, to realise that they too "it." For that reason, he suggested tlicy should take as their motto, '"»._ Arc It.' The suggestion was greeted with, loitd applause, • '

Continuing. Colonel Hilcy said that he was proud to be lhc colouel of such v. corps. When he came to New Zealand and found a railway corps existing maiiilv ou paper, he made up Ms mind that le would not be colonel to it Unless it coast, to be a corps on paper. He had never yet belonged to anythiug that he was not proud of. (Applause.I They had vow got round the iirst corner, and should now prosper. In years t.. come they would remember, wifu a glow, that they had belonged to the railway corps. He wanted no apology to be made when the railway corps came along, aud lie would like their motto to be "We Are It." (Applau-O.j There was no reason why they should not be the smartest corps in the Territorials, as they were composed mostly of picked men. He bad put a tost on the men, and ha.d done so purposely, vvhcu the camp was proposed. He scut a letter to Colonel Barclay, saying that the Department would allow the men three days, provided the men were willing to giro three days of their own.

He did that because he did not want the men to think that the camp was a picnic. He was now going lo modify that, and certainly would not ask any man to give up three days of his holiday. (Applause. Three days were much, but lie wanted the men to take it as a compliment. In future it was the idea that iprom_tions to the commissioned ranks should come from the non-canunisstoae-r.inks. and. therefore, selection would be very careful and very searching. If any of the men desirpd to obtalu commissions —aud he hoped they all wanted to stay 111 _lh_ corps after -heir term v£ service was up—they would have to fit themselves in every possible way. They would have to show that tbey could lead, and that the men in their centres could look uu to thorn. They were not going to- hay. men in the railway corps who were na looked np 1o by their fellow-men.