TERRITORIAL CAMP

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 886, 1 February 1930, Page 13

TERRITORIAL CAMP

TRAINING AT NARROW NECK BEGINS NEXT WEEK Five hundred of Auckland’s Territorial unit will s'o into camp at Harrow Neck next week. The first contingent, which will include non-com-missioned officers and trainees from the outer districts who do not attend night parades, will go under canvas on Wednesday, the remainder following on the Saturday. The camp will conclude on Saturday. February 15. The weather prospects for the period are not bright, and the whole of the battalion will have to sleep in tents. However, a properly designed tent, as supplied by the Defence Department, will, with ordinary care, turn the heaviest downpour, said Captain J. O. C. Wales, adjutant of the First Battalion, the Auckland Kegiment, this morning. There are insufficient permanent buildings at the camp to serve for sleeping quarters for the whole unit, but all meals will, as usual, be served in the huts. No Auckland boys, with the exception of a number from the Otahuhu district, who train with the Waikato Regiment, will camp at Hopuhopu this year. These Territorials went South this morning. The artillery trainees, except the coast battery, which is now in cam)} at North Head, will go to the regular area near Rotorua, where there are facilities for carrying out the firing practices impossible for some distance around Auckland. Camps will extend there over a total period of 10 weeks.

The usual programme of training will be gone through at Narrow Neck this year. Physical exercises and swimming parades will take their place with the drill movements, and work will be done under service conditions. There will be no “Battle of Woofit’’ this camp, but manoeuvres of a somewhat similar character are being arranged. These will probably take place in the hills near Long Bay, on the East Coast.