A GREAT MILITARY TOURNAMENT
''•■:■','.... (By Telegraph.—Press 'Association.) '■■:. ■' -,: .:.'-•;: <^ : PalmeMtcn, July 19. .■• A meeting representing- all thePalmerston corps decided to-night to join tlie Manawatu Mounted Rifle-s in the of the highly-successful military tournament that has grown.to such large dimensions since it was started by the mounted corps. ■ It was decided to ■ call,it the, Royal New. Zealand Military and Naval Tournament, and to,hold .it.on November 8 and.9. The Commonwealth Defence Department is to be asked to send a contingent over; also' to, send a judge.- It' is jalso /expected, that there : will bo a large., re. presentation from the-Royal. Navy ■ and the permanent forces. Assurances of entries from corps all over.New have been:-re- , ceived. Last year's tournament was'.the'.iarßest yet held in' New. Zealand; but'!it- will'-bY .'completely eclipsed this'year. •!-..' ... :-.-,
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 564, 20 July 1909, Page 5
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125A GREAT MILITARY TOURNAMENT Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 564, 20 July 1909, Page 5
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