CAMP NOTES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2976, 13 January 1917, Page 6

CAMP NOTES

0 TEMPORARY APPOINTMENTS. The followinc temporary appoint* ments have been approved by tha Camp Commandant at Eeatherstoa: Lce.-Corpl. AV. j. Betty, A Company, Twenty-second Reinforcements, to ba ordorly room clcrk; Pte. B. S. AVill, A Company, Twenty-fourth Reinforcet nients, to be corporal; Pto. F. AT. G< Rule, 0 Company, Twenty-fourth Rc-i inforcements, to he lance-corporal; Corpl. P. Stitt, G Company, Twenty-i fourth Reinforcements, Gunner H. Vj Harsreaves, Twenty-fourth Reinforce* ments, N.Z. E.A., Gunner E. S. Pilcher, Tw ; enty-fifth Reinforcements, N.Z.E.A., to be orderly room clerks. The following officers liave heeu trans-i ferred as under: —Second Lieut. G. Jacksonj from Mounted M.G. Section, Twenty-first Reinforcements' Specialist Company, to Twenty-first M.R.; Second\ Lieut. AT. Austin, from Tivenfcy-seventli n.c.o.'s M.R., to Twenty-eighth n.c.o.'a M.R.; Second Lieut. A. Georgetti, from! F Company, Twenty-fourth to Twenty* eighth Jlount-ed Rifles. Chaplain-Capt. O'Doherty (R.C.) hasi reported for duty at Featherston. Lieutenants C. G. Gray and J. S* Nicholson, of the N.Z.D.C., have becii attached to Taulierenikau Camp. Capt. C. K. ATard, N.Z.D.C'., ha 9 been detailed for temporary duty a(( Somes Island. S.S.M. (W. 0.) G. B. Stevenson, N.Z, P.S., has been granted the honorary; rank of lieutenant, temporarily, whilet employed as assistant musketry instruct tor in the N.Z.E.F. Camps. The following temporary ments have been approved by the Cam a Commandant at Trenthani: — Medical Corps: Pte. T. Dwyer, to h(j corporal. N.Z. Dental Corns: Pte. J-; J. Fox, to ho seraeant-mechanic. PiCompany, Twenty-first Roinforcnmentsi, Lce.-Corpl. 11. V. Morris, io ho com poral. N.Z. Postal Service: Ptes. A.P. Levin, H. A. AA'imsett, to he ser-t goants.' The Twenty-fourth R<?inforcemenfs have settled down in their quarters afl Featherston, and are proving themselves a keen and -willing draft, ready to leant and quick to respond to their trainings -Their- lines-ore »- model .of...neatursS and order. Tt is the practice ati Featherston for the troops to bo played out-to parade-.and back.to. camp whenl parade is ':'ovor:'■•" Marching'. to rausid is a thing ivhicli has to bo learned, and the Twenty-fourths are picking it up well. All told there are now abouli 10,500 men in camp at Featherston, and at Taulierenikau, tlio latter caionj being now in commission and occupied by the Twenty-third Reinforcements* This draft is considered to bo a very; good one. Tlio Twenty-seconds are at Featherston at present, and the infantry o5 this' draft will begin their march to: Trenlham on Thursday next. This weekj tho infantry have been engaged in ad-; vanced field work and other advanced trainuig. 1