MEDIUM BATTERY

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 123, 27 May 1930, Page 11

MEDIUM BATTERY

PRESENTATION OF TROPHIES

The 17th (medium) Battery, N.Z. Artillery paraded at'Pe.tone on Monday night for inspection by the G.0.C., N.Z. Military Forces (Major-General R. Young), and presentation of trophies won during the 1929-30 training year. The battery was complimented on its excellent turn-out by General Young, who stated that the efficiency of- the ■ Territorial Forces at the present time was probably as high as it ever had been.

The following, is a list of trophy winners:—

Best; drill section, Pearce Cup'and exNavals trophy B sub-section (Sgt. Green). Tabloid athletics (Wilford Cup), A subsection (Sgt. Crooks); best No. 1 (Mitchell Cup), Sgt. Roberts; best signaller, L.Bdr. White;'- best tractor driver, Gunner Heyes; best gunner, right section, Bomb., Dennett; best gunner, left section, Bomb. Simeon; best layer, L.-Bdr. Wilson; most efficient gunner in battery (special trophy), [Bomb. Body. ■'■•■. Efficiency Badges.—Layers: Sgt. Sut» clifi'e, L.-Sgt. Everingham, Bomb: Dennett, L.-Bilr. Wilson; tractor drivers, first-class, Gunner Heyes; second class, Bomb. Wickham, Gunner Page, Gunner Cliikls; signallers,. Bomb. Wright, L.-Bdr. White, L.Bdr. Everson. For long and efficient service, special trophy, B. S. N. Aklous and Sgt. Ford. General Young also presented to the battery the-Medium Howitzer trophy won by tiie battery during the past. year. ' Colonel J. H. White, D.5.0., D.C.M.; Colonel :W.. L.: Sinclair-Burgess^ CJi,, C.M.G., D.5.0.: Lieut.-Colonel is.. S.vmon, C.M.G.* D.S'.O.; : Lieut.-Col., G.» Xyon, M.C.; Major V> P. Haughton, Major R. Feuton, and officers of the R.N.Z.A., N.Z. S.C., sth, loth, and 19th Batteries, and of D Company, Wellington Regiment, were present, and were the guests of the battery at supper ai'ter the dismissal of the parade.