VOLUNTEER NOTES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIV, Issue 9, 2 March 1910, Page 11

VOLUNTEER NOTES.

(By

Rifleman.)

It is estimated that between 1700 and 2<KIO volunteers will go into the Kitchener camp next Tuesday. District orders to date have been fully posted, and the volunteers are now acquainted with the full pro gramme as far as the District Commanding Officer has been able to formulate it. The officer comma nding No. 3 Garrison Artillery has approved the following promotions:- -Corporal \V. Golden to be sergeant, Corporal H. Brothers to be actingsergeant, Bombardier 11. Gavan to be actingcorporal, Bombardier A. <’. Long to tie acting corporal. Promotions to date from the 7th February. 1910. There was a good attendance of N.C.O.’s and men of the No. 3 Company G.A.V. last Friday night at Fort Takapnna, for the purpose of fort-manning, when some good work was done. On Wednesday evening, the 23rd, a meeting will be held for the purpose of electing a captain in the No. 3 Company G.A.V. All N.C.O.’s and men are asked to make a special effort to be present. The O.U. the Auckland IHstrict (Colonel Wolfe) has wisely decided not to hold the cadet review on Tuesday next on Victoria Park, as originally intended, but to assemble the cadets and boy scouts at the Domnin, and there tumble Lord Kitchener to review the boys. 'Hie change of review ground, Col. Wolfe points out. will enable at least 20,000 people to witness the proceedings, whereas at Victoria Park there would have been little accommodatkMi Peg spectators.

The cadet display in An kland next Tuesflay will be the biggest thing of the Lind •>ver witnessed in Sew Z-eauiud. It is •xpected that quite 35*ju cadets and boy Scouts will assemble for review by the •Field-Marshal. Ix>rd Kitchener A good litany of the country cadets will arrive on Saturday, and at once g » into camp on the Ik/main. By Monday it is expected that 30U0 cadets will be under canvas, and on Che day of the review another 2500 are exTected to arrive. Major Bobb, of Oueii u age. wiil take command of the camp until the arrival of Major Macdonald, from (Wellington.