VOLUNTEER AND SERVICE JOTTINGS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13868, 30 September 1908, Page 4

VOLUNTEER AND SERVICE JOTTINGS.

BY SENTINEL. The practical infantry of officers of No. .3 Company Garrison Artillery. Volunteers is to take place this evening. | 1 The ■■ enrolled strength of the district is j keening well up to the mark. Iho returns , for tin. volunteer year showed a Slight in-1 crease in numbers. , .- ' I Staff-Sergeant-Major Atwell gavo ;) a very I interesting lecture on "Field Kirjng -to Die members of the Auckland Garrison i\. O. • Officers' Club on Friday evening last- - Hudson and Co., flour millers, of Dunedin, have, presented a 50-guinea cup ior competition among quick-firing gun detachments by 1 the garrison artillery of the Dominion. - The No. 3 Company Garrison Artillery; Volunteers,, under Captain H. ■S. Morran, had the largest muster last Saturday at Dominion Day parade, the full strength being : 75. '' V\' ; ; ,:■-,-■ ■ ■tf. _____ .' '&MX:^ I The smoke concert, of the Auckland : Garrison N. C. Officers' Club, down on. the syllabus for Friday next, has been postponed ; until Wednesday, October 7, when: it.will take the form' of a complimentary," smoke concert to Lieutenant F. H. Jackson. , ■ A district-., circular has been issued calling attention to tho dates and places on which ] the annual Government inspection of .small arms by the armourer will be continued. Officers commanding units and corps are re-/ quested to arrange to have all the: arms on* issue-" to them from the Department collected and-, ready foi- i; the armourer's : - inspection oh/ the dates mentioned in the circular. The Auckland Mounted Rifles have de-/ oided to postpone their annual dance from October 2 to October 16, on account, of several pre-arranged functions of social interest taking place at Avondalo on or about the original date. The committee are issuing' fresh invitations, but should any recipient of cards for the "former '-'through': accident be overlooked in the ■ second issue ; the ■ v committee : specially request - that they will accept them as for the later date,. A routine order has been issued by Xieu-t-onant-Colouel .1. K. Reed, stating that the undermentioned non-commissioned '■- . officers have been successful in the examination held on, thelßth inst: —-Sergeant Goldstone. Victoria Rifles; Lahce-Sorgeant Neeley, LanceCorporal Thompson, and: Lance : Corporal, Coulan, No. 1 New Zealand Native Rifles; ; Lance-Corporal Harkness, No. 3 New Zea- ! land Native ; Rifles : Lance-Corporal; Ashton,. j j Lance-Corporal Cameron, Gordon Rifles. : Captain Walker, officer commanding tho local squadron (writes my. Cambridge correspondent), has made the following promo--tions: Corporals Wallis and Jeans to.be sergeants; Troopers Strawbridge and Ormiston- to be corporals; and Trooper Read to j be bugler. The. details-of tho .series of: shooting matches for ltallenstein . Bros.' I trophy give Sergeant E. C. Wallis,pride' of I place, •'- Sergeant B. < Simpson, and SergeantMajor Bruce being second and third respec-j tively. _ ■_ :l- . , ■;' i During conversation with Lieutenant-; Colonel Wolfe in reference to the. Dominion Day, parade, lift expressed pleasure at ilia muster, the general -■ turnout, and the steadiness of the inarching of the men on parade.: Coming so soon after the fleet review it was very creditable. He would like all ranks throughout the district to know how gratified he ■"■was at the manner in which they performed their duties during Fleet Week, j and: also their excellent ; conduct 1 ' and splenI did work at the Fleet Review; With refer-. , once to the Dominion' Day parade he wished to" state that he had noticed lately an improvement in the First: Auckland Infantry Battalion. • At a public meeting held in Dunedihyes- I terday to protest against disbandment' of the;! North Dunedin Rifles, the following resold, I tion was carried unanimously': "That this I meeting, called by j public request for v the .\ purpose of considering the threatened _ dis-j bandment of the North Dunedin Rifles,.: hereby desires to place on record that such disbandment_ would be a.. groat calamity at ■• the present time and detrimental to,the best interests of volunteering in the Dominion;; •"While not wishing in any may; to criticise the judgment' 0f,.-the-. Defence. Department,\ I this mooting respectfully; asks the- Minister | for Defence to tako steps to hold an outside commission of inquiry: for the purpose of, I hearing both sides of the question, and : thereby elucidating the difficulty." ■ - Oh Saturday next ! a triangular; match will be fired between the Garrison Officers Club, Garrison N. C. Officers' Club, and ii team ■" of privates from the Garrison 'Com-; panics. -"The '.'...following: will;.-, represent the Garrison N. C. i: Officers' -.Club:— Staff-Ser-geant-Major Atwell; •Sergeant Yco, Sergeant 1 Anderson, Corporal Patrick, Corporal Jones', Corporal Lucas, Corporal Dannell; Sergeant: , Phillips, - Colour-Sergeant King, Sergeant 1 Rretschmar, Sergeant Wtight,- Colour-Ser- ; "eant McKerras, Corporal Mageoj Sergeant; 1 Marks, Corporal Reardon, Quartermaslerj Sfergeant Turner, Sergeant W. Morgan, Ser-geant-Major Clark, Sergeant Blackett, Ser- i geant Novill, , Corporal Maxwell,, Corporal Thompson, Corporal Martin, Sergeant 0Morgan, and-Corporal; Fricker. The follow- J ing 20 have been chosen to represent the I privates of the garrison:— Carlson ' Cox, Farley (2), McCarthy, Jack, MWvor i Munro, Rowe, Preston (3). Brownlee," fithß, Purchas, Watson, Ferguson; Gordon j Pcrston,. Waters, -M. Tobin. . ; , ' j