DEFENCE NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18862, 10 November 1924, Page 10

DEFENCE NOTES.

BT RAMROD. A special six-day voluntary course of training for officers and N.C.O.'s of territorial units will commence at Narrow Neck this morning. Major W. C. Finnis will be camp commandant, Captain Potter adjutant, Sergeant-Major G. Walker camp sergeant-major, and Sergeant-Major Temm camp quartermaster. The training will embraco musketry, infantry, physical and special instruction in Lewis and Vickers' gun work. Given fine weather, the camp should bo one of the finest yet held, all the trainees being exceptionally keen and enthusiastic citizen-soldiers. The Y.M.C.A. hut is now a fixture in the camp, and the social side is being extremely well looked after by Mr. .Wheatley, Y.M.C.A. military secretary.

The instructional camp for officers and N.C.O.'s of artisan units at Narrow Neck was brought to a close on Saturday. The bovs thoroughly enjoyed the week's work, and are going back to their everyday occupations looking fit and well. The weather was ideal throughout, and bathing parade was held every morning. Picture entertainments were given in the Y.M.C.A. but each evening and were thoroughly enjoyed by all ranks.

Headquarters win& of the First Battalion (Countes3 of Ranfurly's Own), will parado at 7.30 o'clock on Thursday, November 20.

Lieutenant-Colonel E. J. Hulbert, D.S<Oh, Sixth New Zealand Moulded hiues, Manawatu, has been awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration.

Gibraltar Garrison Orders (1730 to 1800).—The following interesting extracts from the Orders of the Governor of Gibraltar, 1730 to 1800, appeared in the Green Howards' Gazette, the regimental journal of tho old 19th Yorkshire Regiment:—"A Mr. ordered out of the Garrison for drinking the health of the Pretender; if he has not left in two hours he is to be turned out by force. . . . It is the General's order that Edmund , of the Regiment, be put upon the gibbet at the top of the hill as a mark of ignominy for his abominable wickedness in disobedience of the laws of God by putting himself to death. Whereas several fishermen, instead of bringing their fish to tho public markets, steal the best kind into town for particular people, the Governor orders that no fishermen bo allowed to hawk or sell fish anywhere but at the public market, and whoever shall discover any fishermen bringing fish into the town is to secure such fisherman, and whatever fish ho has about him shall be forfeited." The Third Battery, New Zealand Artillerv, will parade to-night at 7.30 o'clock in the Drill Hall, Rutland Street. Tho Second Battery (18th P.R.), Lieutenant Baxter, last evening a week-end camp at Hamilton East. The battery commander intends holding several week-end camps during tho year, to put tho battery on a really sound footing in gunnery and general work.