UNDER SERVICE CONDITIONS

Evening Star, Issue 23094, 21 October 1938, Page 11

UNDER SERVICE CONDITIONS

DUNEDIN BATTERY TD TREE Members of the 14th Medium ’Battery, New Zealand Artillery, are to carry out something new in the way of tactical training during the Labour Day week-end; Instead of establishing the usual camp for the week-end they are to. make a trek, complete with all equipment, carrying out tactical exercises en route. The battery is mechanised, and the pool mechanised transport of the Southern Military District arrived from Burnham this afternoon to provide the necessary vehicles. The battery will leave Dunedin at 9.30 a.m. to-morrow, travelling north to Palmerston, and then to Dunback. It will bivouac for the night there and continue the trek the following day through Macraes and Moonlight to Sutton, where the second night will be spent, returning to Dunedin via Outram on Monday. The trek will be carried out under service conditions, and tactical exercises will be worked out at various points along the route. Major A. G. Perry will be in command, and Lieutenant-colonel 11. E. Sleigh, officer commanding the 3rd Artillery Brigade Group, will accompany the unit. The convoy will be comprised of two six-wheeler vehicles, three trucks, and three vans. These came from Burnham by road to-day under the command of Lieutenant G. H. . Macan. N.A.S.C. Later they will continue to Invercargill under the command of Lieutenant A. R. Crockerill, D. 5.0., N.Z.S.C., where they will he used for training by the Southland Regimental Depot.