TROOPS TO MOBILISE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 721, 21 January 1910, Page 6

TROOPS TO MOBILISE.

INSPECTION BY LORD KITCHENER. THE NEW ZEALAND TOTJE Joseph )Vard), • in. his.official'capacity as Minister for C';a;-ivDofence, .announced yosterday that the '. military arrangements 'for tho. approaching tour y of; Ne- Zealand by: Field-Mar-; :. : Xj 6li'al Lord '• Kitchener ... were; practically ; :.coinplcte; .Lord Kitchener will arrive at :• the' Bluff on Thursday, : February. 17, arid

.n'il 1' be'.welcomad' by tho-Prime Minister aiid' the,members; oi.the Defence Council. '' Ho - Vvill then -proceed; by train -to. Duiio- :^';,.. : diii, and-oiitlie. folio wmgday.will i n v .' VEpect tho harbour defences,; 'garrison ' arvi: tillery, aii<l : tho senioraud junior, cadets.. L ;. The troops of the Otago district will bo WsH mobilised v on: Saturday will carry, .out field operations under, • tbo Field-Marshal's, inspection, afterwards ; : roturning' to their : homes the following day. On Monday,' February. 21, lord Kitch-. :.. -. eiier,' . who will be accompanied througliftJSfout the Prime.Siiiiister and the members'of ■ thej Council of.Defence,: S'ifewill proceed to Christchurch, when,/on' Tuesday, tbo harbour defences, garrison fe''s£''■ artillery,; and'; the senior . and': junior '•'•.'cadets'will be.inspected, and the forces -the '.Canterbury' district mobilised;'near . •*'- Cbristchiirch for field operations, on the

'•• following day. ; . . ' l': ".':!' -, v? '-':' -On tho evening of Wednesday,• t'ebru-ii'-.iv;::iry-:23,"i' the Field-Marshal: ;will .' leave for •.. Wellington;' and. on his "arrival, at. the .v ''i Capital;will be accorded a civic welcome,. a banjjuet by the 11m-;fe;?«istry:'-iMeV-jharbonr^defences,-garnsoii; artillery, senior, and junior cadets will ' : be the : .following 'day. - . Troops . . from idl parts of the district will tnobi- .. ■ Use -at a'rconvenient- base.;near tho : city, .'. ' and encamp; in .preparation for the: field; -operations, whioh are to.bo earned, out - on Saturday. , ■. y jf --Lord Kitchener will--.leave.. Wellington for Auckland on Monday, February 28, ; . mid on March 1 and 2 will carry out a i - &Aprogramme. of .sirDilar 1 -a-- ' already, outlined ->ior. . the -other- centres. ■ i • « Hq ■'leaves "Now Zealand-on /.Thursday, March' 3, on rout© for Fiji.--.. . » f'The;mobilisation of. trwpsv-and. general - aiTP T>gfiTTi an&vf nr. the-: encampments will. left : in the: hands' of the - com--, i - ■ mantling ' tho -several .military • districts. y&rf- Special tr^vatTang^ments;. : will >be made i^-^'forythe: conveyance^of>troops^'fropi their.' respectivev'centiesto, the.; mobilisation, camps' in %each Asvto. the., pre-' fthelield/,operations :to; be out/by the troops,.,,nothing,^. of. jbe •conjectured.'; As^the,.Prime. -observed/I in; r ;an:J'interview: - yes- # i^fei-terday:^ material; Lord - Kitchener: «.will soloct ; the thdUmanoeuvrMiv-aid ?;draft ,-the | SW scheme 1 of x operations." -.-<h