TREKKING THE GUNS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 972, 12 November 1910, Page 4

TREKKING THE GUNS.

AN INTERESTING TEST. - Our crack battery of field the D Battery of Wellington—is putting in some strenuous Saturday afternoons an-a week evenings getting up to concert pitch for the annual training camp and efficiency test in January next. The programme in previous years has consisted of about a fortnight's training under cajivas at a' fixed camp—in the Hutt Park—then an entrainment to Featherston for tho annual gunnery test with live shell, under service conditions. The main disadvantage of this arrangement lyfes that having to compress the shell practice within tho limits of'one day, little time was available for • practico gunnery and correction of errors. This year,. however, a different scheme will be tricdi It has been arranged that tho battery will put in twelve days at tho Hutt Park —morning and evening parades, and on January 20, the guns will bs limbered up, and the battery provisioned and organised for a fourdays' trek, with shell practice each day. The trek, which will traverse ; a route via Haywards, Pahautanui, Paremata, and Porirua, thence back to Wellington, will have strict regard bo a . definite tactical scheme of field operations, with the other arms of the ser-. rice in imaginary co-operation.