DEFENCE MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 31, 6 February 1908, Page 2

DEFENCE MATTERS.

PARADES AT BUCKLE-STREET. Ths courtyard of the Buckle-street (Mount Cook) drillslicd is a very busy scone on mo&.t> evenings, this summer, ths progress of rebuilding avo£lc having niado the dril!shed v accoinmodation not available. Last night the gun squads of tho No. 1 Garrison Artillery (Wellington ! Navals) Avere exercised at various I manoouvros, and they Avent through their work with a smartness that, betokened ability to perform good pVac-tk-al work in tho sixteen clays' course of instruction, Avhich will commence at Malianga Bay to-ynomnv. Another corp3 Avliich drilled lait night at Buckle-street avbs the Electric Light Branch of the Wellington Garrison Artillery Division, Avhich h^s been formed out of tha disbanded Submarine- Minprs Qompany. All the neAV cbmpany constitute recruits in a technical sense, and every member ia now uudergoing tho three months' course of development drill which the Council of Defenco has proscribed for all recruits. It is a scries of Avell-devised physical exorcises, and its effect in strengthening and making lissom the young men avlio go through it becomes apparent on oven a cuisory obeervation. The instruction last night Avas given by Sergt. Gentks, of tho Permanent Forces, and tho recruits Avent through it Avith a thoroughness that augurs Avell for the neAv company's prospects. The men have not worn their neAV uniforms yet, but the prepaiations for this event ai\? proceeding. Tha uniform will bs similar to that in um3 by the Ko^al NeAV Zealand Artillery.,