OFF TO CAMP.D

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 32, 8 February 1928, Page 10

OFF TO CAMP.D

-a;;batch., of srx ';•'. Between COO and 700 oflifce'rs, jipncominissioiieil officers and men- of the Territorial' Forces', left Aucldaiid at S a.m.•• to-day.-by . special ti;iiu- for the annual cam]) at Hopuhopu, Ngaj-uawahia. Another batch,.o| leavp at tl;e i.sanic time~«n-iS;i,U\rday next, .and will be joined by 130'"from IVaiilitbn. ~~By Saturday evening there should'be over IGOO men in camp- Tliis particulai - batch of troops will vacate.their positions,on Saturday/ Febrimry IS, ■\vheSi ; ?lhc 130 will 'return to Frankton and'.' 1300 to Auckland;., ..-£,#,£ - ry - . ;l will-be occu■piqd by various ''smaller units from other parts of the Auckland military^-district up .till ilareli. 31. ' :;'

— This morning's (luota were paraded 011 the Auckland railway station: shortly, before the liomr.-pf departure with their kits and and '.entrained with true uirtiiaiy'Vpj'.(rcisiou. It put one iii mind of the war period, save that iin this particular!i'nstance werejconveyed'to camp in instead 'of seated 'wagons.' '/'• .