VOLUNTEER AND SERVICE JOTTINGS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14214, 10 November 1909, Page 4

VOLUNTEER AND SERVICE JOTTINGS.

t » v - I BY SENTINEL. ; '^llffi The 12 years' service - medal; 4 has' lye* *$ awarded to Private' E. E. Pilkingtcn, pj £ the Auckland Cycling and . : Signahißp >& Corps, and will be presented at aa,4Mfl| jf date. v The competition for the Webster cup, a which is open to teams representing4sj a : Garrison - Artillery Companies, • also *uK I* Battery and Engineers, takes ] place|m * Penrose next Saturday. '■ 1 f ' A squad of Wellington Engineers., west -.] to Blenheim on Saturday with the-PW. ,V pose of endeavouring to signal sby M»* S-« graph to another 6quad of Engineerfj*| '9 ' Island Bay. They succeeded in transmits » ting a message. fil - I Volunteers of all ranks will be please*. 4 to hear that Captain Carpenter, A.A.G. f t| Auckland district, has recovered so rapid-M •'•) ly from his operation that he willjHS ;**S bably be able to leave his J house/fi||| '■ 1 short walk this week. •. .< . 11 "' '■■■•■ ■\ ■ .' ' • ' M A squadron of the First '% land Mounted Rifles enrolled ' aMjjn| ft member on Wednesday night who b». *A seen active service in South Africa, in *:j the person of Sergeant' J. Irwin, of tin v ?ij Hawera Mounted Rifles, and late Qpart« ; ; ii master-Sergeant of the Sixth ContingSß'- -,• ; 1 ;|i The following have been selected to i* '"i present the No. 2 Company Garrison .Ar- -;; tillery Volunteers ; in the* pi shooting competition, which takes plw*s : 1 Penrose ; J next Saturday:—Sergeant-S»J% j| Clark, Sergeants Morgan; Thompsonj|J|| £ well, Corporals Sheppard, Burrage; ■•ss&s •. bardiers Perston, Isbister, Gunnersj&ffP| l fiths and Thompson. Emergencies, Gnu- r ners Penk and Bordett. • '' ") .\ I The late Drum-Major William iArlttJft of Parnell, was a volunteer for over J) H|f years. In England he ' belonged first* ■ the London Engineers, and afterwsd*J>; M the Bristol Engineers. On com " 1 |f Zealand he joined the Devonport ™s§9gßt , and afterwards the Auckland ;BeaM|@S I 1 pany, gaining the marksman's «j[ a -crack shot. He was selected ."K'Mg I | post of drum-major, which position J* JiV fiVed with great credit, he being ■'$&£■[.. soldierly man. Of late years he ed the Auckland branch ;, of. the Veterans'..Association, in which.. "££;»'' ways took a leading part. He :; member of one of the .Auckland IM, of Freemasons. Lately he had ■ »»©■£ very much, and his death was; not »p.B|< gether unexpected. " '/ A MBI