SOLDIERS' GATHERING.

Press, Volume XLIV, Issue 19389, 15 August 1928, Page 13

SOLDIERS' GATHERING.

CANTERBURY MOUNTED RIFLES. •■"Having been 44 -years insistence, the "Ganterburjr, Mounted Rifles held their eighth annual reunion for esactive. service Jmemioeta Sn the Jellicoe Hall last evening Colonel 7ohn Findlay, (&&.; D.S.O.y%D.i ■presiding. —■' For the purpose of securing a complete record of the "nantes of members of,the' regiment, a book was placed at and-among those who .inscribed -their naines therein- were the following P. Harper, "George Harper;' D.' S Murchieon, H. C. Hurst, M. -it:Gard'ner, R. N. Guthrie; H..- G. Coburn,A. P. Stubberneld, P. C. Davis, E.'.Clarkson, D. Brown, E. Goodwin, R. Anderson, L. Macfarlane, L. J. Smith, M, Parsons, JJ.--J. Mj*>re, JV le Lievre;, W.-.J. Warren, L. Bain,'P, A. ffiekman, B. Jeky«, H. 6. Ingram, and R. Young. !Jhe toast-list was as follows:—4 The King"; **Fallen Comrades;" proposed by Major, L; I&acfarlane, M.C.; "The New Zealand: Mounted Rifle Brigade," proposed by Lieuteiiant'Colonel Hurst, D.5.0., T.D., responded to by Lieutenant G. M. Gunn; A "The Regiment," proposed by Captain .Robin Harper, D.5.0., M.C., D.C.M., responded to. by Colonel Findlay. .-» ■,'■ During th««v«ning-aa enjoyable programme of musical,, and elocutionary items waa given by : Mobw Cockflj R« Ellison, L. J. Smith, R. Young, and A. Owen.' . ■"; ,:\\-- ■-■■'■■•.■•