OFFICERS’ COURSE

Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1935, Page 7

OFFICERS’ COURSE

WEEK AT INGLEWOOD. TACTICAL OPERATIONS WORK. Inglewood will be the scene of extensive military operations from to-day, when senior territorial officers of the Central Military Command will begin a week’s training under the command of Colonel I. T. Standish, C.M.G., D. 5.0., R.N.Z.A. From thfe Inglewood Hotel, where the officers will be billeted, the operations will be carried out each morning and lectures will be delivered at night on various aspects of army work. The party will number about 24. A railways bus left Wellington yesterday morning and picking up officers en route arrived at Inglewood last night. .Officers attending include O.C. mounted rifles and infantry regiments and battery commanders with their seconds in command. . .

Work during the day will.be over the surrounding district, when tactical operations, appreciations of situations and mapping out will be carried out. At night the day’s work will be discussed and lectures on the organisation of a division, artillery and air force co-opera-tion and similar subjects will be given. Colonel Standish, who is O.C. Central Military Command, will have associated with him Lt.-Colonel R. A. Dow, D. 5.0., N.Z.S.C., general staff officer, first grade, to the command, and Captain F. L. Hunt, N.Z.S.C.