EASTER MANŒUVRES.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12927, 19 March 1906, Page 7

EASTER MANŒUVRES.

SKETCH OF THE WORK. j . Definite information about the- Easter j for volunteers was issued in .a district, order on Saturday, notifying tli.it Sail troops in the Canterbury district will .encamp near Gulverden. Full details of .the schemes of work will be available after Geneial Babington's return to Wellington, but the following is a. sketch of the proceeding? i j; .Troops; will entrain on the Thursday ■evening at times and places to be notified liter, . an-rl will; proceed to Balmoral, near Culverden, where they will detrain and march to the site of the camp,. about three miles from the station. The position chosen is an excellent one," large plantations ottering good protection from winds and: two water good water supply. ients will be "pitched for the .volunteers by the permanent_force, and the place will be used as a. camp during the progress of the manoeiirres v On. Friday, and Saturday attack and de fence /work, -for which the country is eminently suitable, will be carried 'out, the commanders of the two forces being in all probability. the. two senior battalion commanders of the district.: Casualties wilt at various times be detailed, thus giving, junior officers : and. men the opportunity of working in positions such as they would have to do under such circumstances •in actual warfare. i On the last day; of camp, field firing with ball cartridge, at . targets representing the enemy will be carried out on a large scale. . This part of the scheme, which has. never before been undertaken in. the colony, should prove . interesting to the men and decidedly .instructive. The troops will be sent- out with only a small quantity of ammunition, and practice will thus be given in the supply of ammunition to the firing line, in action. _ Fnll details of the work will be gone into at rise next meeting of the Officers' Club next week.