VOLUNTEER NEWS
The "Taieri Advocate” says of the khaki drill imported by the Government some time back for Volunteer uniforms:—‘We criticised it at the time as being. utterly unsuited to the Otago climate. We have seen it in use and it is worse than useless. A few drops of rain and the drill is wet through and the cold, flabby stuff sticks to the men's teriliing to induce colds andrhtumetism.” The tardiness of the Government in com pleting its arrangements for the Easter encampment is causing a great deal of bitter complaining among tlie South Canterbury Volunteer;. A large muster of Volunteers can only be secured at camp by giving a month's notice at least. In tbe absence of anydefinite knowledge. Volunteers who would otherwise attend, make other. arrangements for Easter. The officers, too, it is ailsged, arc put to a great deal of unnecessary trouble.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4309, 19 March 1901, Page 5
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