VOLUNTEER INTELLIGENCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3006, 1 October 1908, Page 5

VOLUNTEER INTELLIGENCE.

SCHOOL OF INSTRUCTION. The School of Instruction for Volunteers, now being conducted in Masterton, is progressing very satisfactorily. Good attendances are maintained and the instructions given is spoken very highly of by the local volunteers. Staff-Captain Browne and Staff-Sergeant-Major Burr are acting as lecturers, and both have given some valuable addresses torching on every branch of the service. ,- On Tuesday evening the subject was "Topography and Field Engineering." .Captain Browne dealt exhaustively with this important subject, illustrating his remarks by various means—with charts, blackboards and bas-relief diagrams. Last night the District Assistant Adjutant-General, Captain T. W. McDonald, attended the school and gave a lecture on musketry, dealing principally on the relation of fire effect to the formation of ground. The lecturer illustrated his address with numerous diagrams of, a very illuminating a,nd instructive description. The Adjutant concluded his lecture with a short and pithy sketch cf practice in attack, showing clearly how the attack should he built up preparatory to .the final assault. To-night the school will be continued in the upstairs portion qf the Motor Garage of the Wellington and VVairarapa Motor Company, Chapel Street. Captain Browne will deliver an address on l) e service of protection, which course will include outposts, advanced, flank and rcargU.'SlYh.