THE TERRITORIALS

Lake County Press, Issue 2392, 7 September 1911, Page 5

THE TERRITORIALS

Arrangements for Posting. Instructions to the different posting committees in connection with the military training scheme have been issued from headquarters. The work will be carried on as soon as the medical inspection has ceased, and, as the special instructions for officers commanding districts point out, “the posting, enrolment, and equipment of the forces must from the present time until they ara completed take precedence over all else.” It is emphasised in.the official intimation that the drill centres must be carefully chosen. The more closely the drill centres of the various arms can be made to coincide the greater will bo the facilities for training. Each battery, garrison artillery company, field company of engineers, and signal company will be drawn from one centre, as it is necessary that, to ensure their complete efficiency, they should train as units After the posting each man of the forces will be personally notified by mail as to the company, squadron, or battery to which be has been appointed “ The question of how men beyond the radius of of compulsory attendance from a drill centre are to be trained must,” says the memorandum, “ be for the further consideration of the regimental authorities. Such cases can only be solved by the exercise of ingenuity on the part of those ultimately acquainted with local conditions. There is a solution to be found in every such case, if sought.” The posting committees will be formed as follows:—President, the officer in charge of the area group; members, the adjutants of the mounted rifles regiments concerned, the adjutant of the field artillery brigade or an officer of the R N.Z.A. detailed to act for him (in groups from which men for field or mountain artillery units or engineer units are drawn), the staff officer to the coast defence commander (in groups from which men for garrison artillery units are drawn), the staff officer for senior cadets, a permanent officer to be detailed by the officer commanding the district to carry out the posting to the medical units in the district (in groups from which men for the medical units are drawn). The following will also attend : The area sergeant-majors of the group, and the sergeant instructors of units concerned.