DEFENCE STAFF TOUR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15513, 21 January 1914, Page 7

DEFENCE STAFF TOUR.

MANY OFFICERS ENGAGED.

OPERATIONS AT CAMBRIDGE. The headquarters' staff tour takes place at Cambridge next week, from January 26 to 29 inclusive. Staff officers and senior territorial officers from all parts of the Dominion will be present. A feature of the tour will be the presence of the Auckland ■ section of the New Zealand Forces Motor Reserve of Officers, which will be mobilised for the first time since its inception. Operations, extending over a considerable area of country around Cambridge, begin at 3 p.m. on Monday afternoon. The officers engaged will be divided into two opposing factions, red and blue, and military evolutions will be carried out just as if the officers were at the head of a body _ of troops. All plans and details are confidential, and the participants in the operations will not be informed of the imaginary conditions which have been arranged until an actual commencement is made. About 60 officers are expected to be present, and these will be quartered in the various hotels in Cambridge. Those from the South Island leave on Saturday next and join the Wellington contingent in that city in time to leave by the night express on Sunday evening. Amongst those leaving Wellington will be Major-General Godley (Commandant of the Forces) and Colonel Head (Director of Staff Duties and Military Training). A further contingent of officers will be picked up at Palmerston North. Officers from the Auckland dis trict leave on Monday morning at 9.15 o'clock. The 10 officers from the Auckland military district will be Colonel R. Logan, A.D.C. (O.C. Auckland military district), Colonel C. T. Major, D.S.O. (commanding the Auckland Infantry Brigade), Lieuten-ant-Colonel W. G. Braithwaite, D.S.O. (Imperial General Staff), LieutenantColonel G. A. Ward (commanding Mounted llifle Brigade), Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. Parkes (N.Z.M.C., orincioal medical officer), Major T. W. McDonald (N.Z. Staff Corps), Captain H. C. Nutsford (N.Z. Staff Corps, brigadier-major Mounted Rifle Brigade), Captain W. W. Alderman (briga-dier-major Auckland Infantry Brigade), Captain C. L. Hawkins (N.Z. Staff Corps, adjutant 3rd Auckland Regiment), and Captain W. W. Wright (Army Service Corps). The motor reserve officers who will be in attendance number eight, and are Captains N. Newcomb, C. Rhodes. H. Horton, J. Stewart, and' Lieutenants J. C. Allen, J. C. Hardie, C. C. Buckland, and H. H. Shaw. At the conclusion of the staff tour General Godley will probably proceed to Rotorua. where he will inspect the senior cadets on January 31. A similar inspection will be carried out at Te Puke, Tauranga, Waihi, Paeroa, and Thames. General Godley will arrive in Auckland on February 5, leaving again for Wellington on the following day.