CAMP AT CAMBRIDGE

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3550, 6 May 1939, Page 5

CAMP AT CAMBRIDGE

THE MOTORISED SQUADRON TROOPS ARRIVE TODAY During the week-end, A. squadron of the 4th Composite Mounted Rifle Regiment will be camped at the Cambridge racecourse. This is the motorised squadron, and of special interest for visitors will be the latest Rren gum and carrier, which recently arrived in New Zealand.

The camp will concentrate at the racecourse today and remain there until Tuesday, when a trek will be made to Rotorua, Tauranga, Paeroa, Auckland, and Whangarei. At the latter town the squadron will cooperate with the Ist Composite Mounted Rifle Regiment in tactical exercises before proceeding to Auckland where the camp will break up on May 17. In camp at Cambridge there will be about 120 men from the North Auckland Mounted Rifles and the Waikato Mounted Rifles. Major D. H. Wilson, of Auckland, will be officer in charge of the camp, with Lieutenant H. H. McDonald, of the New Zealand Staff Corps, as adjutant. All of the men will be accommodated in buildings on the grounds. ........ The public of -Cambridge may visit the camp tomorrow afternoon, although no official arrangements are being made. The. hjodern army transport machines should be ofgreat interest. , >

Two Rren guns and carriers,, wf 11 carry out tactiqs between. 1 p.m. and 1.30 p.m. tomorrow afternoon, this being the best time for visitors to be at the camp. A review will be held on Monday at 4 p.m., at which the Mayor, Mr Edgar James, and representatives of local bodies have been asked to be present. There is a general invitation extended to the public to be present unofficially, when some idea may be gained of the great part that the mechanised army plays in present-day campaigning.