DEFENCE NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 110, 1 February 1908, Page 14

DEFENCE NOTES.

a- (Br, Echelon.)

- - - Secretaries of Volunteer. Corps and Hi do Clubs are invited to contribute items of -interest for. insertion in this ••• . :' column. • v ■ . The. targets 1 for to-day have , bean .allotted ■ : bb' follow :r-Seddon Range—l :to 6, Karon . -Rifles;.7v.tov9 v Petone Rifles; 10 and : 11, ~ Guards ,• 12 and 13, Post • and Telegraph ; Rifles. Sommorville Range—2'and 3, D Battery , 4, Guards; .5 and-6, Zealandia Rifles; 7> and B,.Highlanders ;' 9. and 10; Civil Ser-nce-,Rifles; 11 and:'l2, -.City;Rifle.s.- Collins Range—2o and 21, .Permanent Artillery; 22 and- 23, Hutt-Valley- Rifles; -24 and. 25, Kelburne Rifles. It will bo, noticed that as tho season approachos a . greater' amount of long >, range shooting is. being.indulged in.' No less . than :13 long-distance ranges will be required to-day. .The Post and Telegraph Rifles will providoithe :Duties for the day. \ . i Atr-a .meeting of the Executive of the South-Island Riflo Association last week jt: ■Was decided.that tho; meeting should occupv - threo idays. and not foiir, as, was: origmallv suggested. . ' The dates arc FridaVj. Saturday .and . Monday,,- February 28 aud 29, and March 2. It has. been the practice hitherto for Volunteer, companies,'to forward .to.'the bat- ■. tahoiis-to-which they belong.their: quota of capitation received—one fyilf. , In. future this. \s tn: be deducted- from capitation earned beforo it. isvhandcd,to tho, companies. > It is . understood. that the .innovation does''not if]-' , together meqt witb.the'approval of tho'companies 1 r

Volunteers may -not. be 'generally aware that . in ; connection ■ with ■ the Easter manoeuvres they are. to be paid the rates laid • down for ■ "actual military/service" m- Regulation 393. .Apart from -the officers' -pav, tli Is means: ]?or sergeants.,' Gs.'jier day; corporals, ss. perjday; and-other ranks, 4s. per day • y