SUCCESSFUL CAMP.
ENJOYED BY THE MEN. [B2 TELJSGEAPH— SPECaiL TO THE TOST.) CHBISTCHtTRCH, This Day. The Territorial camp at Templeton, dose to Christdmrclu has been, a pronounced' success. The men, a portion of the North Canterbury TtMH-aHfip, went into camp last week, and were marched back to the city yesterday. They had done their work well* said the officer commanding (Lieutenant-Colonel Smith), and had made a first rate beginning. The degree of efficiency already attained -was quite suprismg. There can. be not the- least doubt that the' men enjoyed their experience, and they arrived | in the city looking brown and hearty, I though a few of ihem were obviously footsore after a quick inarch over hard ! roade to the nius-ic of a pipe band. A I yeang man who went to the camp under protest told a Lyttelton Times reporter thai he had enjoyed himself. He etiU. believed that- military service should xkH be compulsory, but he did not mind admitting thati he had encountered none of the evils that had been, predicted.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 87, 12 April 1912, Page 3
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173SUCCESSFUL CAMP. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 87, 12 April 1912, Page 3
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