CAMP AT KAITUNA.
COMPANIES CARRY OUT FIELD FIRING. Training work at Kaituna, where tW First Battalion; Canterbury '■Regim'eifti. is now in camp, was in full swing yppj terday, two companies carrying-' out field firing and the remainder engaging iu specialised work such as signalling transport, and intelligence. ",. The A and B companies spent their time on the range with, rifles and Lewijj light automatic guns up to distances s>£ 600 yar<is. Tho Viekers machine -g«;% sections selected their; own targets, ans fired-at ranges, up to 1500 yards, *g many as 12 of these guns being ia action together. Arrangements are .well under way for the tactical exercises «& Friday night. , ?.? The first of the inter-company com' petitions was held yesterday, D , co»» parry winning the paperchase. In tlte daily tent inspection competition the I) machine gun section is leading. .?*
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20806, 16 March 1933, Page 13
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