CADET OFFICERS' CAMP

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14657, 26 January 1912, Page 6

CADET OFFICERS' CAMP

50AST DRILLING TO-DAY. Reveille at C.30 yesterday morning W&h not altogether welcomed by tho Cadet Officers encamped -at the Grounds, for they had not been .feiahy hours under canvas, tho enter'tainmefit of the previous night Having * lasted into the "wo hours." They • wore tired men, therefore, who turned f)Ut for ,t ffttiguo ,) duty at G a.m., l>nt »et about thoir "work assiduously in the knowledge that tho previous day of dissipation !had to bo compensated for toy & day of continuous toil. From 6.30, until brcakfust time the officers fibook off eoino of their stiffness by a Spell, of pbyfiical cxereiaes. At 8.30 tho day was begun in earnest, Captain CtevGiifl colling out tho officers for ; squad and company drill, and the neatness and finish displayed allowed what i great benefit tho teachcra must bavo ; derived from tho instruction g?ven by , the staff officers. In the afternoon instruction was given in musketry aiul Ktiluting with tho sword.' Altogether it was a satisfactory day, profitable to the instructors and those instructed. To-day will bo another heavy one. 1 numerous branches of instruction having to bo finished off. Skeleton bat- \ talion drill will bo tho feahire of tho j day's programme. Camp mil bo struck j to-morrow, and numbers of officers j will leave for north and south by the ] through expresses, many of them hav- 1 in£ to resuTrif school duties on Monday. iStpfi: officers- a n d officers join in thanking Arthur Annaiid and CfeorKc Tnvlor (both of tho South School) for their useful r<;rvice the camp, and are unanimous that strict attention to duty rnd exemplary hobnvmur marked the conduct of the little volunteer buglers. Satisfaction was also driven by -the chief

(?ook, W. Kemp, and also his assistants. OFFICERS IN" CASIP. Following is a complete list of tlhe Staff ami Cadet oHh'-crs in camp:— Staff-Officers—Capfc. Stevens, 0.C., Sor^t 1 . -Majors Kennedy, Cumniings, Bishop, and Just; Caj>t. Dryden (medical officer). Majors MchafToy (Southland), 13cthnuo (Wellington), T\Tnrray (Dunodin). Smith (Dunodin), and Moir (Otngo). Captains.—Otnco—Boll, T-fonrv, Borne. Gnduim, P-nttrr«r, n . North Canterbury—Morgan, tYilkins, "Wilkinson, AJeFarlano. South Canterbury—Mar-l-mtt. Worry. Sout^l:mt]—Smith. Jin.., ('reiß, Even-on. Nelson—Penrl, Gil"Kiiir. Anckhud—WniMoll. Lipjiteniaulld. Norili Cnntorlmrv CampM, Cook. Pciiliiifrton, li. Pen- ™ n""' N»P'er. Morlfmd, vV.alkcr, Dnnno, Trvin. .Tonos. r\ rills, JoMjotm, Wtliers, B'istion, 'Wilson. Jirunton, Thohipson, Cookson, McLeod

aud Maunsey. South Canterbury— Pilkington, Cotter, and Tait, Otago— Eggleton, McPhee, Sarle, Parr, Stewart, kockeart, Mackie, llodger, Bastings, Wade, Linchan, Sproat, McKenzie, Prentice, Mcintosh, Morrow, Watson, Gilchrist, and Hall. Nelson —Scott, Boves, and Cutler. Westland —Carmine,. Wicks, Lawn, Taylor, and Foord. Southland—Lapdell. " Wanganui—Willotts, Braithwaite, McDonald. Waimagaora—G apper. Buglers Arthur, Ami and, and George Taylor (South School). Captain- Stevens, 0.C., began his military career in the Royal Field Ar- | tillery in 1900, when he wont to South Africa and was invalided homo. After a hrief stay in England he went to Northern Niagcria, where ho was ftppointed to a political post in the Colonial Office, still holding I:i« commission. After five yoars in Nigeria, he rejoined his regiment in India, jho served from 1904 to 3 908. ttei mgning from the service in 1908,' Cuptain Stevens decided to retire intt> civil life, and chose New Zealand as his future homo. The same >ear, he accepted an appointment in the Dom.'ii'OTi Dofon'e and hn.. hc-m placed on the Staff Corps and promoted to the rant of captain. Ho is now the officer . commanding the I Junior cadets during the absence of j Major McDonald, who is ?n England, ; attached to the Tmnennl Forces for ; g? ln J n ff- Captain Stevons holds the - Kings medal and the West African | General Service bad<ze.