DISPLAY IN BOTANICAL GARDENS.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13896, 31 December 1913, Page 4

DISPLAY IN BOTANICAL GARDENS.

BENEFIT FOR MILITARY TOURNAMENT COMPETITORS.

The benefit entertainment, held in the "Botanical Reserve last evening to enable- the H. Battery to fiend a team to tho Auckland Exhibition, attracted a fairly large crowd. The procession left the Church Steps at 7.30, headed by the Citizens' Band, and followed by the H Battery and No. 51 Company of cadets (who are proceeding to AuckaThe H Battery gun detachment, which consists of eight men and a sergeant went through the artilleij alarm. This is the. chief event m which they are competing at Auckland. Tho manoeuvres are as. follows: s.n<arm is. bivouacked, and harness stacked in-tho rear of the. six horses, which aSe tied, .to the. guns, by. "jeans <?f a drag rope and halter. .The whistle sounds the alarm, and the men hainess up the six horses, hook m, mount, and trSt 75 yards tea flag; nght-about whofil and halt; action rear, and then lav the gun oil tho target, .which ha& £U pointe,l out to them The time this .event, was won in test year was 3min -IBscc; hv the, Christchurch battery 'and- fast ovoning, timed bvtwo oSSders, it was accomplished m 2min SSNo' 51 Compnnv Senior Cadets gave ahExhibition 4f squad- drill with arms, w^S%n. cadet, g^ S&g aa4^^S^ mTf|t will StSfer Staff-Servant Hurdley, °f Thf mule rendered by the Cities' Band Smuch appreciated. Between £6 and £7 was taken at tho gate. „