CAMP NOTES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 60, 12 March 1915, Page 2

CAMP NOTES

The main body of No. 4 Company (Wellington) New Zealand Engineers went into camp on the Waikanae racecourse. The Divisional Signal Company and the Mounted Signal Troop, together with No. 3 and No. 4 Company, Army Service Corps, are already undergoing training on the same ground. The camp is in command of Captain Grovel 1 , Area Group Officer. The excellence of artists and the programmes provided at different times for the men at the Trentham Camp are splendid The V.M.C.A. as an institution is one of the foremost in thus providing for the men. This was exemplified on Wednesday evening last, when, despite the bad weather conditions, a party consisting of Buch well-known artists as the Misses Gladys Watkins, Winnie Lonsdale, and Myrtle Bonteli, to gethel 1 with Messrs. R. S. Allwrighl, S. Laslett Extoh, Geo. Holloway, Zante Wood, Will. Goudic, and Will. Lambert motored out to Trentham to give a concert. The programme was bright', and all the items were received most enthusiastically by a packed audience, who much appreciated the visit of the party on such a wet night. Every officer, n.c.0., and man of the sth Reinforcements will be inoculated against typhoid on Sunday. As a consequence no leave will be granted to the men concerned between midnigh f on Saturday and 5 p.m. on Monday. Those who have been inoculated will be detailed for light duty only during the remainder of the day. The following gifts from the Lady Liverpool Fund are acknowledged: Twenty cases of apples, two cases of pineapples, one case of pears, and two cases of magazines.