ENGINEERS ENTER CAMP

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21111, 12 March 1934, Page 5

ENGINEERS ENTER CAMP

[training will continue for ! A WEKK Officers and men of the Third Field Company New Zealand Engineers, and the Southern Depot Corps of Signallers to the number of about 100. left Christchurch on Saturday for Rakaia, where they will go into camp till Saturday next. Some of the members of the Third Field Ambulance who were unable to attend the camp at Waikouaiti also went into the camp. The officer in charge of the camp is Major W. I. K. Jennings, D.5.0., N.Z.S.C.. and the adjutant is Captain J. I. Brooke. The Rev. A. J. Petrie will act as camp chaplain. The training of the engineers will include a considerable amount of attention to demolitions, and a twelvemile march will be undertaken, and operations gone through at its conclusion which will be equivalent to destroying a railway ]ine. The signallers will be busy with the new field wireless equipment which has xecently arrived from England, and is regarded as the latest improvement in this direction. The set may be carried in a vehicle, or even in a pack, and within two minutes can be set up .so as to establish communication with a point three of four miles away. The set has a Morse range of 10 miles with a 9ft aerial, and 15 miles with a 15ft aerial. The camp will be inspected on Thursday by Major-General Sir William Sinclair-Burgess, and on Wednesday Major W. Bridgeford of the Australian Staff Corps will inspect it. The site of the camp provides good facilities for amusement, as there are tennis courts and a swimming pool available close by.