VOLUNTEERS

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4292, 27 February 1901, Page 5

VOLUNTEERS

The annual inspection of arms .of (ha corps in garrison will take place during the 5 next week. The different corps will parade for this purpose as follows: No. : 1 Rifle Battalion and Cycle Corps, on Friday, Marchl; Petone Navals and D Battery, oh Tuesday, March o; Naval Brigade and Heretaunga Mounted Rifles on .Wednesday, March 6; Engineers, on Thursday, March 7. - Our Carterton correspondent writes: —At the encampment on Skey’s Farm, the monotony, of field routine has been considerably enlivened by sports, concerts and hakas, in which all the troops have participated. An officers’ race was won by Captain Remeni, after a hard tussle with Lieutenant Davis. The prize for the neatest kept tent was awarded to Troopers Marshall (2) and G. Waterson, of the S.W.M.R. Major Burnham, of the Imperial Army, writes in the “ Daily News ” as follows on the subject of marksmanship:—“lt seems to me that the ideal training for a soldier in the future will be that which makes every man more or less a scout,.taught to use common.sense and all five of his other senses, and, above all, to become a good rifle shot, for, with all due respect to the artillery, it is the man with the rifle who counts;, in battle. It is surely a mistake to give a man three years’ drill and only three months at the rifle butts, and then call Mm a soldier when he could Tneet modern conditions far more successfully with three years of the rifle and three months’ drill.”