THE TAUHERINIKAU CAMP.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1023, 12 January 1911, Page 6

THE TAUHERINIKAU CAMP.

CFro'm. our Fecitierstori' Correspondent.) . The instructionalcamp at Tanherinikau is-now : .a very, busy scene. Thero. arc four distinct'classes ill camp:—(l) 'The Staff, which comprises the Commandant, Colonel 13. S. Heard arid five Staff officers, who are: Major J. G.-Hughes, Assistant •'Commandant'; Captain; G. 1 C-'-'Hamilton, of thb Grenadier-Guards (A.D.C; to the. Governor,- and'. serving''with the Defence Department by consent of his Excellency), Camp; Adjutant; Captain II; H. Browne, Camp ' Quartermaster; .. Captain It. 0: Chesney arid;. Captain J.i E. Duigan,'.lnstructors. •• • • • , ' (2) Officers who are at present lieutenants on probation, and who aro to be appointed adjutants and Staff officers for the forces. Of these there are 28, which number..' will - shortly ■ -.be-,-.increased. 1 \ • •(3)•• .Warrant'.-.officers and 'staff-sergeant-'inajors of the Permanent-- Staff .-, of the Dominion.'--.prth'csethere.are-S,. and this. :clafs,-: together iwi th classes 1 a:id 4, are being-instructed for seven -hours per'd'ay. . ,(4).Tho fourth class comprises 20 Staff 'sergeants, - who- have been temporarily, ap-■nointed.-'fiiid, -.for- this. class. and Glass -3, it -,is intended '-to ,select- : a certain-, number -to'iill.. the ; position' 1 :of area supervisors. The camp itself is*,a 'niodfl of rient/riess: and. .order:. There are upwards of 30 '.military; sleeping-tents, 4' mess tents (one for. each!, oftheY different;, c]assas already enumerated)'. arid .the-Staftiness tent lias 'attached tolt-,an ; addilioiiqi;tent,' which acts, as,a sort of anfe-rqoiiv! ; The. water arrangements, including .tanks and shower baths,-: and nil tho sanitary, arrangements; are. good, arid every thine fj'hggest's' utility. . 'In , all-' directions..small squads c£ meri pro to be;seen being" actively drilled, and this willigo oh all.day (for.seven hours), and.evorv'di\Y (Sunday excepted) for. the eight that the cnrii'p is to be -Held. CoTonel Purdy; P.Jl.'OV'for' the.Defence •'•Force?, -paid a :visit.:'o£ .-inspection -to tho cariip yesterday;'-'- 5 ..'' \ . ' .- ■■■' \'.'Twcnty-on'o' horses/" which, -havo- been 'purchased .bv' the.yeterii'irjr Denartment, ; arrived' iri'erimp-.ori. Tuesday, riigbt.'' These have ' been -inspected by -.the Commandant, ' and clashed'as', of good stamp.