SITE AT CAMBRIDGE

New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9095, 14 July 1915, Page 9

SITE AT CAMBRIDGE

SIB lAN HAMILTON’S RECOMMENDATION, Press Association. CAMBRIDGE, Julv 18. The Mayor has telegraphed to the Minister for Defence at Wellington as follows : —“ln support of our member's request that a camp be established at. Cambridge, I would remind you that when General Hamilton inspected the big encampment here ho said th© site arrangements were Ideal, the best he had seen in the Dominion; the surrounding country was ©specially adapted to teach all branches their work, as it comprised broad .plains, good roads, a range of mountains, and a broad, swift river. Sir lan saw the camp with four thousand men, and after five weeks’ broken weather. 1 respectfully submit that Sir lan’s Words constitute most powerful advice to anyone of less experience in choosing a camp site-” SOUTHERN CLAIMS ADVANCEDPre«» A«”-iHntlon. .... . TIMARU, July 13. At a meeting of the Waimate Borough Council to-night it was resolved to write to Mr Anstey, M.P. for Waitaki, pointing out that excellent sites for a military camp exist between Waihao and Waitaki. Steward Park, at Morven, beside the railway, was considered an ideal place.