OFFICERS' INSTRUCTION CLASSES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 9, 5 October 1907, Page 4

OFFICERS' INSTRUCTION CLASSES.

The list of officers attending the m- . struction classes at the Alexandra Barracks, Mount Cook, is as follows:— Lieut. Tcomath, No. 6 Company New Zealand Engineers; Lieut.-Col. Watt, Major Hushes, Captain Inncs, 2ud Battalion Wellington Rifles; Captain Batten, Lieut. Harris, Royal Rifles; Captain Scott, Lieut. Cox, Wanganui Rifles; Captain Harper. Lieut. Cado, Lieut. Cunningham, Wangamu Guards; Lieut. Craig, Wanganui Highland Rifles; Captain Morrison, Lieut. Muir, Lieut. Mitchell, Hawora Mounted' Rifles; Lieut. Tuffnell, Lieut. Macdougall, Wanganui Defeiico Cadets; Captain Allardice, Dannevirko Defenoo Cadets; Captain Meldrnm, Lieut, Ashworth, Lieut. Pleasants, Hunterville Mounted Rifles; Captain Hislop, 3rd Battalion Wellington Rifles; Captain Ringland, Napier Guards; Captain Simm, . Ranfurly Rifles; Captain Beese, Lieut. Mitchell, Lieut. Coleman, Gishornc Rifles; Lieut, Small, Huramua Mounted Rifles; Lieut, Clark, Eltham Rifles; Captain Tomblcson. East; Coast Mounted Rifles; Captain Wilkie,Lieut. Wright, Lieut. Heintz, Hawora Rifles; Captain Ross, Hutt Valley Rifles; Lieut. Prendeville, Eketahuna Mounted Rifles; Major Tatum. No. 3 Regiment Wellington Mounted Rifles; Major Malonc, 4-th Battalion Wellington Rifles; Lieut, Bcllringer. Taranakr Rifles; Capt. Mills, Lieut. Boon. Lieut. Bnp/lle, • Tnrnnnki Guards; Captain Martin, Captain Norman, Napier Rifles; Cantain Sandtmann, No. 4 Regiment Wellington Mounted Rifles; Capt, Strack, Hawera Snbool Cadets; Lieut, "Hartley. Napier Citv Cadets; Lieut. Rntrers, Blenheim Rifles; Major Poison, No. 2 Battalion Wellington Defenoo Cadets; Lient. Domigan, Fpilding-Rifles: Major Tate, sth Battalion Wellington Rifles; Cantain Hnnt-.Tohr.stqn; Lieut, Crombie, Croytoivn Rifles: Lieut, Haston, Post and Telegraph Rifles; Lieut. Marshall, Civil Service Rifles. The complete syllabus of work is as follows: — . . * Drill (11 days)—lnfantry training: squad, company,' battalion, extended order. Mounted rifle training: squadron, column, . and company column. Combined training: Saluting with and without swords, signals, guards, and sentries. • Musketrv (1* days) — Appendix 'training: rifle and firing exercise,theoretical principles, fire discipline control and supporting fire, judging distance and range finding, practical • field tactical exercises from musketrv course 191)7-8. '. • . Tactics (4 davs)-Combmed training: Protection on the march and at the halt. Mounted and infantry manuals: Reconnaissance, scouting,, patrolling. Sketching manual: Attack and defence. District .library: Co-operation mounted rifles, infantry and Held artillery, field sketching, reading and use of maps, field entrenchments, cover, etc., applicable •to a mobile force, defence of hedges, farms, obstacles, etc., framing and issue of orders, marches (times and distances for night and day), camps and bivouacs. Administration (1 day) — King s regulations: Duties in camp and field, orderlv officers, captain of the day, adjuta'nt, quartermaster, etc. Defence Act: Roster of duties. Genoral regulations: Administration of discipline, arrests, courts' of inquiry, mobilisation, movement of troops by railway, method of supplying troops with rations, forage, and ammunition-

Practical tactical exercises (2 days)' : —To suitable ideas on subjects studied under tactics. j Arrangements have now been com- : - pleted for tho opening of the shoot- ' I ing season at Trentham to-day, : October 5. The train arrangements which proved so satisfactory last sea- j son will continue. Tho * volunteer ' special through train leaves Wellington at 1.45 p.m. on' Saturdays, arriv- i ing at Trentham Siding at 2.40 p.m. ! The Hutt and Petono corps will re- i quire to travel by the ordinary 1.20 i p.m. train. The special 'leaves 1 Trentham at G p.m., arriving at Wei- ' lingtou at 7 p.m. With the purpose ot effecting a continuity of trench : supervision, it has boon decided that Staff-Sergt.-Major Colcloughby will act as' permanent- trench officer for ' the season, an arrangement which i should provo highly satisfactory. Trench officers and markers must, "of course, proceed to Trent-ham ■by the 1.20 p.m. train. Single companies \ will, each Saturday, detail for range i duties: 2 range officers, 1 bugler, and 4 telephone men. Tho average attendance for last season was 250, including officers, I N.C.O.'s, volunteers, and rifle club ' men. Tho range now has ahiplo accommodation for 500 men, and anticipations point to a considerable increase in the average attendance for I the coming season.