VOLUNTEERS.
SCHOOL OF INSTRUCTION. A echool for the instruction of volunteer officers was opened on Thursday evening at the Garrison Hall, and the instruction will be continued nightly for about a month. Colonel Owen, commandant of the New Zealand School of Instruction, arrived here last evening to start the school. He was accompanied by a number of others, who will take part "in the instruction. At the close there will be an examination, and those parsing will receive certificates equal to commissions. The instruction is confined to officers living within what is known as a residential area. The officers who have notified their intention to profit by this opportunity for obtaining instruction are as follows : — Four from the Naval Artillery, 3 from the Green Island Rifles, 1 from the Engineer Cadets, 3 from the Dunedin Engineei's, 4 from the B Battery, 1 from a mounted rifle corps, 1 from the Highland Rifles, 1 from the City Rifles, 1 from the Waknri Rifles, 1 from the Cycle Corps,' and 1 from the High School Cadets.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2511, 30 April 1902, Page 50
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174VOLUNTEERS. Otago Witness, Issue 2511, 30 April 1902, Page 50
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