THE DEFENCE FORCES DISTRICT CAMPS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 79, 2 April 1912, Page 8

THE DEFENCE FORCES DISTRICT CAMPS.

' ' $KCOURitfGIJIG REPORT FROM THE j : COMMANDANT.. ■* ' The* Minister of Defence (th« Hon. "A. fM._ Myere) has received a telegram from • Godley, Commandant of the > 3For,ces", stating that he has just returned ; shorn a vi«k to tbe camp of the 12th 1 jNelson, Regiment. The attendance of Territorials at the camp was over 400, j and! -both there and at th© camp of the iNelaon Artillery the utmost enthusiasm j jprevatiled, and excellent progress was I anadtt by the troops. The General also ; intimated that he had most satisfactory 1 areports on the camp of the Christchurch IFaeld Artillery, the Westport Field lArtill«ry, the Auckland Field Artillery, ]' *he Bth South Canterbury Mounted j Stifles, the Dunedin Engineers, and the : Bfch Southland Regiment. • General Godley will return to Wel- \ iingiton to-morrow, and on Thursday will ' ■ jproceed to Christchurch to inspect the A camps in the Canterbury military dist wick THE LOCAL CAMP. i ' The sth Regiment (Wellington Rifles) ' ' {trill go into camp at Trentham next ' Saturday for seven days' jtraining. i Major Turner will be in command. j iThe strength of the regiment is 812 of 1 ' all ranks, and it is estimated that over | !?00 men will be under canvas. All those .who cannot attend will undergo j "training in the "detail camp" to be' j neld before 31st May. A numerous i staff- of instructors will /be provided, and it is confidently looked forward to j that the camp will be one of the most important ever held in New Zealand. Citizens who have their country's weliare at heart will take a keen interest i in- the work, and Wellington has a good i chance of establishing a record so far | as th« new defence scheme is ttmi cerned. j On Friday morning an advance party j •will proceed to Trentham to make the ! v preliminary camp arrangements. The ', main body will go out by special train at^B.3o a.'m. on Saturday. The regiment , ~ will', bd b&cif in Wellington on the fol1 losing Saturday evening. ; - arrangements are being {' made for the ordinary camp routine of i d»ily duty, which will cover every ! branch of military duty, and committees ' l^ve already been set up to-arrange for | ihflalthy exercises and amusement for f the men in the evening. There is an j enormous amount of work before the men, ■ r blit signs are not 'wanting that the i camp will by no means be a dull one, I ,an"d it is confidently predicted that when ' it concludes it will not only give an im- ! ' jpetus to the new scheme, but will be an \ /event associated with the pleasantest rej for every unit and individual-. ; who participated in, it. ''»««&*