ENGINEER VOLUNTEERS.
:XHiEl' ISSTRCCTOE'S.-RBPORT. ..mfaniiuaUroiKift' .of ,tlio.Chief .Instructor of .Lnginc«r..Services (Captain J.' E. Duieaii) on. tho .progress and condition of the field en gin«r,yolunteor. : corps in the Dominion, states that 'very- satisfactory progress has been noted all. .round.. .Ihreo .of ' the land, v Canterbury, .and Dunedin-havo-' bten graded first, 'class," and the -other, - WoUine-fon;-I'secpn'd'clnss,", :Tho-challenge shield for 'efficiency^was awarded to ; tho Canterbury-En-giiieefS. ' . ' :' . Signalling lias iiiailc - ; great v strides'*' all- over the. Dominion, and . is. considered to verv satisfactory; -.Poft' increassd.: efficiency, s ( a i cs ' l.aptain Duigan, the battalion signalling sections should ,1)0 organised into'companies The present organisation .of;tho!field engineers requires revision,- to,meet.the difficulty of'maintaiqing the xompanies :u'p to- the minimumstrength. ■ At' present cach corps bf engineers includes ■ three higklyvtechnical scction-s—sit.' nailing,.fields telegraphy, and field enginwring It is,suggested that ..greater .efficiency, ivohld bo ■obtained; by.the.creation of' separate' unit 6 'independently organised , and eiiiippei ... v""'■ ' v '
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19091007.2.7
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 631, 7 October 1909, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
145ENGINEER VOLUNTEERS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 631, 7 October 1909, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in