OUR DEFENCE FORCES.

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 March 1911, Page 6

OUR DEFENCE FORCES.

THE INSTRUCTION CAMP OPERATIONS. EULOGISED BYTHE GOVERNOR. [BI TKLKOBAPH —PER PBES3 ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, March, 20. Lord Islington’s Private Secretary has written to Major-General Godley as follows:—I am instructed by the Governor to convey to you and ask you to transmit to Colonel Heard and the officers and non-comimssioned officers under his command at the camp of instruction at Tauherinikau, an opvossion of His Excellency’s high -.ppreoiation of the military efficiency display 'd by all ranks during his visit to the camp on Saturday. His Excellency was greatly impressed by the admirable manner in which the attack was delivered during the morning proceedings, and also by the smart and efficient ma n ner in which both company and trcop drill was performed in the afternoon. His Excellency is sure that all who witnessed the day’s proceedings must, with him, have realised that so high a standard can only have been attained by most careful training and assiduous application in camp during the past two months. He begs to congratulate all ranks on the splendid effort being displayed to start the new defence scheme on such lines of high military efficiency.” NEWLY ORGANISED REGIMENTS. WELLINGTON, March, 19.

The following is a list of regiments forming the Defence Force of the dominion as newly organised, showing the territorial association of each and the order of seniority:— Mounted Rifles.—First Canterbury Mounted Rifles, Canterbury Yeomanry Calvalry; second, Wellington-West Coast; third, Auckland; fourth, Waikato; fifth, Otago Hussars, sixth, Manawatu; seventh Southland; eighth South Canterbury; ninth, WellingtonEast Coast; tenth, Nelson; eleventh, Noi'th Auckland; twelfth, Otago Mounted. , Infantry—First Regiment, Canterbury ; second, South Canterbury; third Auckland (“Countess of Ranfurlys Own”); fourth, Otago Rifles; fifth, Wellington Rifles; sixth, Hauraki; seventh, Wellington-West Coast Rifles ; eigth, Wellington-South Rifles; ninth, Wellington-East Coast Rifles; tenth, North Otago Rifles; eleventh, Taranaki Rifles; twelfth, Nelson; thirteenth, North Canterbury; fourteenth, South Otago Rifles; fifteenth, North Auckland; sixteenth, Waikato. A WAIRARAPA OFFER. WELLINGTON, March, 29.

•The Stewards of the Wairarapa Racing Club have written to Major-Gener-al Godley, stating that, with a desire to show their sympathy with the defence training scheme, they will grant the use of their grounds and furniture for the military camp free of charge. Major-General Godley has replied, thanking the stewards for their courtesy and generosity, and he ’xpressos the great indebtedness which all ranas of the defence force owed to them for their kindness and sympathy. THE MILITARY EXAMINATIONS. WELLINGTON, This Day.

Attached is the seniority list of new officers and non commissioned officers of, New Zealand staffs corps and of the permanent staff who lately passed out for camp at Featherston. They are on probation for a period of six months from the date on which they first joined the camp. Their seniority has been determined mainly by the result of examinations held in camp, but age, previous service and former seniority have also been taken into consideration and allowances have been made for those officers who did not have the . opportunity of being in camp for the whole period, New non-commissioned officers take rank next to old instructional staff commissioned officers. The list is as follows Brown, Brown-Finnis, Meddings, Melville, Andrews, Powles, Morrison, Matthews, Knutsford, Bosworth, Poison, Lampen, Thornton, Glendining, Fraser, Hudson, Burgess, Morton, King, Turnbull, Blair, Hume, Hay, Kelley, Hawkins, Avery, Nicholls, Ihomas, Richardson, Robinson, Kelsall, Henderson, Burn, Banks, Wheeler, Garland, Braddell, Dyer, Wood, Garclale, Hussain. Non-commissioned Officers. —O’Sullivan, Tingley, Mooney, Stedman, Ivimey, Woodward, Wright, Jamieson, Muir, Bon'd, Walker, Halt, Moncrieff, Seal, McGoun, Stevenson, Connelly, Roberts, Hall, O’Hara, Davis, R. Morrison, Steel, MoLardy, West, Edwards, Alexander, Cuff, Osley, Hobbs, Manners, Brighting, Dunham, Glanville, Lyons, Thatcher, Turner, Ritzema, Millett, Donaldson, Davis, Dallinger, Marr, Collins, Corkill, Mahoney, Webb, Smeal and Notley,