TERRITORIALS

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 57, 1 December 1923, Page 7

TERRITORIALS

CAMPS AND SHOOTING. To-day the 17th Battery go into camp at Hutt Park for a week’s training, and on Friday next they will go out to Trentham for service practice. The strength is expected to be 164, as well as four officers, Captain Stevens being in command. Owing to the General Manager of Railways having arranged for leave for Territorials working at the Petone workshops, tho attendance at the camp is expected to show a lager percentage than usual. It is encouraging (o the officers connected with the training to find the Departments setting a good example to private employers. About 200 members of tho crews of H.M.S. Chatham and H.M.S. Laburnum go into camp at Trentham to-day for a fortnight’s musketry practice, as well as Lewis-gun and revolver ’shoot-

To-day the annual prize-meeting of the No. 5 Area Rifle Association will bo opened at Trentham for Cadets and Territorials. The whole party will be in charge of Captain Abel, 15th Battery, N.Z.A., and Sergeant-Major Emerson will act as railway, transport officer. The competitors will entrain at Lambion station by the 7.8 a.m. train. The arrangements for the train journey are very complete. A responsible non-com. will be in charge of each carriage, while a warrant officer or non-com. will take charge of any Cadets proceeding to Trentham. The Territorials will proceed to the Collins range and the Cadets to the Somerville range, the latter being under SecoiidLieutenant Benton. All individual matches will be fired first, teams matches next, and the light machinegun match last. The programme will comprise the following for territorials: No. I, five rounds, 200yds. prone,, 20 seconds per shot; No. 2. snapshooting, circular disc on pole, five rounds, 300 yds. prone. 3 seconds exposure, target exposed five times in 10 seconds; No. 3, rapid, ten rounds, 300yds., 50 seconds; No. 4, moving target, 6 rounds, 300yds. prone; No. 5, fire and movement, 15 rounds, 4 at 400yds. prone. 5 at 300yds. sitt’ng, 5 at 200yds. kneeling; No.. 6, fire direction, targets 12 falling tiles in 3 groups, 300yds. prong, 5 rounds; light machine-gun match; teams match, open to teams of six, aggregate of matches 1,2, and 3 to count; Territorial championship, grand aggregates of matches No. 1,2, and 3. Colonel Melville. C. 8.., C.M.G., D. 5.0., in charge of the Central Command, lectured to officers of the territorial forces at the Buckle Street Barracks last night on “Tactics.” A tactical course is to be taken at Porirua to-day and to-morrow by ths officers of the who are showing considerable anxiety to perfect themselves for active -syvice.