NATIONAL RESERVE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2499, 28 June 1915, Page 2

NATIONAL RESERVE

The parade last week of B Company (Wellington East), Ist R«giment, drew a good muster, despite the wet weather, the recruits' squad being particularly in ovidence. After a short company drill, adjournment was made undei caver for the purpose of listening to a lecture by Lieutenant Reid on "The Care of Arms." The address was both interesting and instructive, and developed into an. explanation of company extension movements, with the appropriate officers' signals for the carrying out of the same. While the lecture iras proceeding indoors, the squad selected to compete in tho July competitions remained out in the rain, practising the reauired movements. This squad is roported to be getting along well, and is very keen. The muster oil Saturday afternoon proceeded to the Buckle Street Drill Hall, owing.to tho rain. The ordinary drill next Thursday evening will be varied by a march from Clyde Quay with rifles, and the. company's bugles and drums, to tho Basiu Reserve, where company drill under bet. ter conditions, will be carried out.

Chlorine gas, which is now being used by the Germans in Belgium and France'against, the Allies, is made in Germany in enormous quantities for commercial purposes at a cost of 265. Her hundredweight. Professor Woriey, in lecturing upon the subject of poisonous gases in Auckland, said t'hat thousands of tons of chlorine wore used each year in making artificial indigo, the manufacture of which had killed the British-Indian indgo ndustry, Pulphur doxide, another of the deadly gases, cost only 12s. a hundredweight, and was produced by burning sulphur. Another gas which might be used by the Germans was bromine. This was a more expensive* gas, and was manufactured near the great salt deposits in Germany. All these gases were compressed into strong steel cylinders for transport, and, 110 doubt, were being manufactured in enormous -quantities at tho present time.

A pbveical (trill display and the finals of tlio Wing tournament are to bo given by the pupils of Miss Sommerville's School ill the Pavilion, Da.v's Bay, on Saturday evening next, at 7.30 o'clock, in aid of the Wounded Soldiers' and Sailors' Fund. This will be a very interesting exhibition, Swedish drill, dumbbell drill, rod drill, fancy marching, etc., being in the programme. , Mrs. llathewson announces that to-day she will offer many bargain lines •in ladies' underclothing and dressing jackets at iier winter sale. In her advertisement appearing elsewhere it is stated that most Jiro to be clcsrct! at almost linif usual prices.

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