MAJOR ROBIN'S REPORT.
WELLINGTON, January 29.
Writing to the Premier, Major Robin confirms the statement as to stripping uniforms of brass buttons and officers carrying carbines. Everything bright is painted khaki, and haversacks are dyed brown. Although there has been some sickness among horses, still the, contingent has 230 available. The other corps had lost more heavily. The New Zealanders had had some trouble with the saddles, and their boots were not good, some being worn oufc already. He mentions the likelihood of their having to get helmets, through the colonial troops being mistaken for the enemy. Major Robin speaks highly of the work done by Sergeant-major Rogers and the sergeants, also by the shoeing smiths. The latter are now shoeing the mule teams.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2396, 1 February 1900, Page 44
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