"BATTLE OF WOOFIT."

Auckland Star, Issue 38, 14 February 1929, Page 11

"BATTLE OF WOOFIT."

MIMIC CONTEST STAGED.

STIRRING SCENES AT RED BEACH.

SPECTACULAR LANDING AT DAWN.

RED AND BLUE FORCES IN CONFLICT.

THE NAVY LENDS A HAND.

The Battle of Woofit" has been staged and fought, with honours easy between the Red and Blue forces. in the early hours of this morning the warships on the New Zealand station steamed silently with masked lights to the vicinity of Red Beach Orewa, and as dawn was greying a territorial force, supported by naval units, was disembarked to wade on to a shelving shore of sand and receive a hostile reception from a well-posted enemy There were some spectacular effects. Verey lights spluttered into brilliance and rockets climbed high into the sky to burst and make night like day. There was an incessant crackle of musketry which was kept up f or hours, while field guns posted on the heights of Kedvale made the valleys reverberate with a din that was in striding contrast to the calm of that picturesque sea-girt sylvan retreat. From the heights in the background hundred! of spectators—many stayed in motor cars all night—viewed the various phases of the 'battle." They had the feeling that the war lacked just a little in excitement. Pcrh; p?, _hey -xoected too much. ' *