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A BUSY CAMP

MOBILISING THIS TWENTY SEVENTHS.

An unusually busy wwlc for TrenIham Camp is; just concluding, tho work in hand iiflyuv: been the mobilising 'of tho Twenty-seventh Haintorcoments. Not tho least busy unit m tho camp has benu t'iC. hand, under Ser-geant-Major Fox. It has played every draft from tho railwav station to the camp, as it did in tho cases of tho Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, and 'Twenty-sixth Reinforcements, when those drafts mobilised. In view of this strenuous addition to their usual busy day, the bandsmen have expressed some surpriso at tho suggestion made in Wellington that they should play "all drafts through tho City streets when the local bands were not available. Onlv about half of tho troops that mohilir-o march through Wellington. All the North Island men go straight by rail to Trentham, oven the nmil trains having been compelled to make a stop at that station to nut down carriage loads of recruits." Tho meeting of these weary travellers by the lmnd is regarded in tho canin as ono'lS tho hnnniost of ideas. There is no doubt that it heartens *he men iin wonderfully to bo marched into 'their new sphere with the band plavinc stirring march music. A remarkable feature of this .marching in is the way the recruits keep stop and swine alon;:, with their luggage hoisted on shoulders or carried at their sides. To the most casual observer, tho fine physique of tho now men is apparent, and those who havo had the mobilising of them express tho heartiest approval of their general fitness and cheerfulness.

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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3024, 10 March 1917, Page 10

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A BUSY CAMP Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3024, 10 March 1917, Page 10

A BUSY CAMP Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3024, 10 March 1917, Page 10

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