TRAINING CAMPS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 74, 27 March 1912, Page 8

TRAINING CAMPS.

Twenty-five more, training campe, I under the new defence scheme, have yet to be held before the end of May. The Department reports that the attendances at the camps already^ held have beea as follow :—: — Oringi.— D, F, and J Batteries, Wei- i lington Field Artillery Brigade, and No. 4 Company Wellington Field Engineers, -400. Wairongoa, near Dunedin. — 4th Regiment (Otago Rifles), 420. ! Annadale, Piako : — 6th (Hauraki) Regiment, and No. 1 Field Ambulance (B \ section), 400. Whangax'ei. — 15th (North Auckland) Regiment, and No. 1 Field Ambulance (C section), 470. I Mandeville, near, Gore. — B and C Batterieis, Otago Field Artillery Brigade, 200. Wellington. — Noh. 3, 5, and 9 companiee, Wellington Garrison Artillery division. No. 4 Wellington Field Ambu- I lanoe, 400. , j Kakariki, Greatford. — 7th Regiment (Wellington West Coast Rifles) t 600. Lyttelton. — No. 4 company New Zea- j land Garrison Artillery, and two coast ' defence companies (Ist Canterbury Regiment), 220. Hamilton. — A and G Batteries, Auckland Field Artillery Brigade, No. 3 company Auckland Field Engineere, and Auckland Infantry Signal Company, 400. Marakeke, near Takapau. — l&t and 2nd Battalions, 9th Regiment (Wellington East Coast Riflee), 1000. Papatoetoe, near . Auckland. — 3rd (Auckland) Regiment, and No. 1 Auckland Field Ambulance (A section), B£>o. Hamilton. — 16th Waikato Regiment, (600. Total. 5960. Training camps are now being held as follow : — Auckland. — Nos. 1, 6, and 7 com- J pauies, Auckland Garrison Artillery j Division, 300. ' j Oraii, Canterbury. — Bth South Canter- j bury Mounted Rifles, and the Canterbury Mounted Brigade Signal Company, 350. I Coalgate, Canterbury. — E Battery, New Zealand Field Artillery, and Canterbury Brigade Ammunition Column, 150. Nelson. — H Battery, New Zealand Field Artillery, 100. Westport. — No. 8 company, New Zealand Garrison Coast Defence Infantry, 150. Merton, Otago. — No. 2 company, Field, Engineers, 100. Gore Show Ground. — Bth Regiment, Southland Rifles, 500. Total, 1650." WELLINGTON ' RIFLES. The sth Regiment (Wellington Rifles) will go into camp at Trentham for their annual training on Saturday, 6th April, parading for the purpose at Lambton station at 8.30 a.m. They will return to Wellington on th& afternoon of the following Saturday. There will be present, under Major Turner, some thirty officers and about 750 men, together with fifteen Cadet officers, who will attend for instruction. The standing facilities at Trentham will, be used for cooking and other purposes, a surgeon and chaplain will be in camp during the whole of the time, and as complete arrangements as possible have been made for the comfort and well-being of the troops. _ An Officers' Committee has been set iip to arrange for i'egim«ntal sports, and an Amusement Committee will arrange for entertainments in the evening in the Regimental Institute, which will have its abode in^tho large mess room. The work of the camp will be of an instructional character, as most of the material is decidedly raw, and the iixture is being looked forward to with considerable interest. There will be a. Poet and Telegraph Office and a. telephone bureau on the ground. Mr. Jumes Mackenzie, who is to take j up tho pobition of Surveyoi'-Geneial from j Ist April, will preside mer the Wellington Land Board to-uiorrow icy. the j last timet " ' i