EASTER MANOEUVRES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13725, 15 April 1908, Page 7

EASTER MANOEUVRES.

ENTHUSIASM IN THE WAIKATO MEN FROM KING COUNTRY. [BY TELEGRAPH.OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Te Awamctu, Tuesday. The local volunteers are most enthusiastic over the Easter manoeuvres to be held in Auckland, and it is expected that close on 60 Te Awamutu men will attend, apart from the other Waikatc squadrons. Included in the number are 30 King Country men who are attached to the Te Awamutt corps. Captain Berry will be in command. EAST COAST ARRANGEMENTS. [uY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] GiSBOBNE, Tuesday. The local volunteer contingent, consisting of about 100 men, will leave under military orders to-morrow afternoon to participate in the first - general Easter volunteering manoeuvres held simultaneously on active sendee conditions throughout the Dominion. The proposal has been entered into enthusiastically by the local volunteers, and on the whole employers have met thfcir men generously. The East Coast Mounted Rifles will probably be represented by about 40 men, and the Gisborne Rifles and senior members of the Defence Cadets by 53 men. They will leave by the s.s. Toroa for Napier and take train to Plimmerton. MILITARY OFFICERS' MOVEMENTS. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.! ! Ellington, Tuesday. Colonel Robin, C.8., Chief of the General Staff, returned to Wellington from the South to-day. Major Hume, R.N.Z.A., left for the South to-night, tc act as coast defence commander and artillery staff officer during the Easter manoeuvres of the Canterbury district. Colonel Tuson, Quartermaster-General, left Wellington for Auckland this morning to be present at the Easter manoeuvres in the North. Major Hughes will attend the Easter manoeuvres on the West Coast.