EASTER MANOEUVRES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6488, 7 April 1908, Page 7

EASTER MANOEUVRES

SOME OF THE ARRANGEMENTS. The officer commanding the district has issued order? for the disposition of the contending forces during the Easter manoeuvT r e. The Red force commanded by Lieut.-Col. Dnthie, will be mobilised at midnight of Thursday the 16th inst, and will consist of the following units :—Half D Battery (2 guns); half company Engineer?! No. 2, Mounted Rifles; No. 4, Mounted Rifles; No. 1, Wellington R.v. (2 maxims); No. 3. Wellington R.V.; No. 5, Wellington R.V.: Wellington Field Hospital Corps; Wellington Garrison Band. The Beds will proceed to JohnsonvilJe. The Blue force, commanded by Lieut,.Col. Watt, V.D., will consist of: Half D. ©littery (2 guns); half company Engineers; *No. 1, Mounted Rifles; No. 3, Mounted Rifles; No. 2, Wellington R.V. (1 maxim); No. 4, Wellington R.V. This force will detrain at Paremata. D Battery will proceed to its base by road. In connection with and detraining of troops the following is of interest':—B?foreUrriving at the entraining station the men are to be told oil in parties. A non-commissioned officer to each purty. Men are not to b© allowed o choose their own travelling companons, it being deemed uneoldierlike and . rovocative of disorder Und loss of time. V N.B.—The service rule ia, wherever possible, to entrain men in the sections they occupy on parade or at work.) A corps is not to enter a railway station occupied by another corps except by permission of the station m'aster, but should await outside the station until all is clear. Band? must not play inside or within 100 yards of a railway station. There is to be V? little bngle as possible, and a bugler w only to sound a call while the adjutant or other officer is in chUrge. Officers commanding units must report to the staff officer on arrival at the station. Every officer from the O.C. downward» must assist at the entraining and detraining of his army corps, brigade, regiment, battery troop, company, halfoomjAmy, or detachment. Officers must not seek their own places until the whole of the troops are entrained. Corps must leave the station on detraining as quickly as possible. Preparation must be mod© at the station prece < ng the station of detrtiinment. There is to be no noise.