THE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT.
||j • ||i We understand that it is intended to forni ||a Post and Telegraph Volunteer Corps in this licity. Some 50 ofnoiala yesterday forwarded ||a requisition to the Postmaster-Generfti, asktim to allow the formation of a oorpg, ■Mand » reply will probably be received to-day. Corps is called for this evening at the Drillshed, to enable members to rahe sworn in and to elSot othcersi A meeting of those who becoming of the New Zealand Natives* Asaoploiation infantry corps will be held at Thomas* ® Elall to*morrow, at 7 30 p.m. HI The Wellington Guards paraded at the r||Drillahed last evening for Government intinder Captain I>uthi©. There were of all ranks on parade. Major Collins on behalf of tho Government, and himself well pleased with the apand drill of tbe cotps. The men I||wer€l exeroi od in skirmishing drill, and also ■glipraotised the feu dejoie and tbe march past, to the ceremonial parade oii Birthday. Several recruits of good i»iphyßique were enrolled as menibors, and are now only a few vacancies remain- 1 to be filled.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 3438, 20 May 1898, Page 3
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177THE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT. New Zealand Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 3438, 20 May 1898, Page 3
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