TERRITORIAL FORCES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15919, 3 May 1912, Page 9

TERRITORIAL FORCES.

THE CASUAL CORPS

DEPARTURE FOR CAMP.

The camp of men liable for military training who were unable.to attend the previous ones at Templeton and Motuharara began in the Templeton Domain yesterday. In the moining the casual corps. 200 strong, paraded at the barracks and ma relied to the railway station, where tho men entrained for Templeton. They will spend a week under canvas. The men wero all in a merry,, jovial mood, and. stirred up by glowing accounts of previous camps, appeared to be looking forward to. their future experiences with unmixed pleasure. Many of .them had j never paraded before, and their de- i portment and manner generally betrayed certain crudities which should bo wanting in the finished soldier. But that was only to be expected, and. con- ; sidering all things, the men shaped very well, and showed that they possessed the necessary qualities to .enable the officers to turn them from raw material into the finished military product Tho officers- wero very pleased with their appearance and behaviour, and, as one of them remarked, quite hopeful and confident that the season in camp would work wonders, and that they would return with redoubled smartness, energy and vitality. Captain Critchley Salmonson is in charge of the men.

Territorials from Ashburton and the surrounding districts paraded at the Ashburton Drillshed yesterday afternoon, and then marched to the show grounds, where they will go into camp for a week's general training. Some fifteen members of the D Squadron, Geraldino Mounted Rifles, proceeded yesterday to tho casual camp at Ashburton. These men wero unable to be present at the Orari camp.

[From Oun Corhkspondent.j WELLINGTON,.May 2

The following changes relating to the Canterbury Defence District are gazetted:—lst (Canterbury) Regiment— Captain Frank Herbert Salter is transferred to the reserve of officers; Sergeant Felix Ballard Brown is to bo second lieutenant to coniplete the establishment: the following are to be second lieutenants supernumerary to the establishment:—Sergeant Harry Herbert Ffitch. Colour-Sergeant Robert Fitzroy E'olderuess, Sergeant Raymond Alexander Reid La wry and Sergeant Macnherson Allistcr Ewen. The Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal has been awarded to Private J. Haigh, lato of the Kaiapoi RHles.