EASTER ENCAMPMENT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13917, 20 March 1909, Page 5

EASTER ENCAMPMENT.

WELLINGTON, March 19. ' The volunteer camp to be' held at Oringi, between WoodVille and-Danne-virke, during Easter, will be run on instruction lines, and it is expected that some 2000 volunteers will be present. The idea is that the- force consists of a mobile column providing ita own defence and transport, and the work provided will be of a nature that such force might reasonably expect to have to carry out under active service conditions. *To give "an air of verisimilitude" to actual conditions, it is laid down in the scheme .that a state of war exists with a neighbouring Power, and that hostile troops have landed at Porangahau, presumably vith the intention of seizing the Woodville Tailway junction. The railway .troops have been mobilised" 5 and are anticipating the seizure 'of the junction. They will push forward, reaching Oringi at 3 p.m. on Friday, April 9. What happens then #et remains to bo seen, but rt is understood the programme is full of surprises.