VOLUNTEER CAMP.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 979, 2 December 1901, Page 3

VOLUNTEER CAMP.

, V < ""■** |he Qaeenls sjfles and Cjamaru Rifles, 88 previously recorded, went into camp on evening, after an inspection parade, and since then a large amount of really useful instruction has been given. The camp has been pitohed on the Show Ground, and the position has been found convenient for more reasons than its proximity to the town. The drills have been made to cover & variety of work, and as a prelude to-each net? class of movements,leotures have been given each evening by one or other of the officers, so that the men were first given the theory which had developed it, and then received instruction and training in the practice ef the art. On Tuesday evening, for 'lnitk'noe, after f the iparade, Lieuh-Oolonel Headland gavea lecture on-battalion attack, and this was followed on Wednesday morning by a parade'for "battalion attack drill, and on the same evening by extended 'older ■ijrjU. iipder Sbtgeanfc Major Kinblewhlte; Oii' Wednesday evening, Captain Forrester lectured on field fifing, but rain oil Thursday morning I prevented aw oiiWoor vpl?. Ooloupl Robin inspected' ootnpaiiej 1 on parade on' Thursday evening, and later on Sergeant Major Kibblewbite addressed the men on sheltered trenoh jjo'rk. Thi§ was 1 folio mprfliEjC motlJfl 'warfare, - '' In 'thq'evjjnlnij i oiw'atjops' were dpvflted to attaolf drill. > Volley to

subject of Lieutenant Milligan's lecture', and on Saturday morning A Company was marohed to Sandy Beach for Tolloy and independent firing. Sunday morning there was a complete change ot the ordinary procedure in a military camp. Iho corps were paraded at 6.30, and maroked to Bushy Beach for bathing. There was a church parade at 1030, whioh was largely attended by the men, and whioh attraotod a large congregation to St. Luke's Church, where Arohdoacon Gould preached, impressively on the words:" Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against tho wiles of the devil" (Ephesians 6,11). lha state parade was: Staff- Lieut.-Colonol' • Headhnd; Adjutant, Captain Italian; Quarter-master Lieut. D.Brownj Staff Sergeant-Major Kibblowhite, Battalion Sorgeant-Major Pryde, .and Quartermaster Smith; Queen's Rifles, 2 officers and 42 rank and file; Oamarn Rides, 1 officer and 44 rank and lie; Oamaru Garrison Band, 1 officer and 19 rank and file, - The general orders have been each day: Reveille, 4.30 a.m.: parade, 5; breakfast, 7.15; tea, 6,30 p.m.; parade, 7.15; guard, 9,30; first post, 10; last post, 10 30; lights out, 11. It wiil thus be seen that the hours have been loug and rather arduous for tl'ose who have their ordinary labors to attend to during the day. The duty of attending to the food has not been a light ono, and has in the main fallen on Quartwmastor Lieut. Brown, who has looked after things well, Before starling drill in tho mornings coffee was served out ail round, and that is nu iiulicati.il of how well tho internal ooonomy has been provided for. On Sunday afternoon the camp was visited by a large number of people, and the Garrison Band submitted an acceptable programme of sacred items. Col. Headland awarded a prize for the best kept tent; in the Quoon's Rifles Corporal Atkinson's being placed first, and Sergeant Earl second; in the Uamaru Rifles, the best being Sergeant Gillks, and tho second Sorgoanb Jessop.