THE EASTER ENCAMPMENT.
At , the meeting of the East Coast Mounted Rifles last night it was stateel that the/ squadron would leave Gisborne for the Easter manoeuvres^ bii ; Wednesday; next. Lieutenant Evans' advised the.meii to have their horsey well shod; as /the country through which the work took • place would bo very steepV .■.'■: As the _oen would be doing a good deal ol >york; on foot he advised them, to provide themselves with suitable boots for hill-cliinbing. Wherever necessary a stable picket will be told off to look af ter! the horses.
After the annual meeting a parade was held in the drill 3hed where kits containing a nosebag,' waterproof sheet, haversack, ; andi. water: bottle were issued to each of the men. 7.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19080410.2.24
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11247, 10 April 1908, Page 5
Word Count
123THE EASTER ENCAMPMENT. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11247, 10 April 1908, Page 5
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in