THE DEFENCE FORCES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 668, 19 November 1909, Page 8

THE DEFENCE FORCES.

;i: ; ■/:->.■;'; ■/■ DISTRICT ■■ OEDEES.';. -J,- •'-!:))■;[ ' District "orders, by;" Lieutenant-Colonel, A. ; Bauchop, .C.M.G., • commanding; the ■ Wellington '• district,.'include. the following'announcements:;^-:.-;-' Vv-'i-.i:-■'-''•';' • '.',> ''■,';--'- l '■'.,■'''■''• - ' The following alterations .have been : made in .the,-datel,oT'inspection -of ■ arms- on issue 'to the.-undermentionedcorps:— ;,.... ''.•,■.'■. ■;; ; '; WWanganui.Rifles:. For. /December -8- substi-, "rtte: ? 'Decemb6rjVls, 1909;' 'Wanganui 1 . Guards:" Tor December 9 substitute i December 16,.1909;. Wanganni .Collegiate Cadots:'.. Tor December 15 and;lo substitute/December 8 and,9, 1309.-,-■,- ■.'. Intending-.cbmpetitors* at'..the ninth .annual, 'meeting. of ;the.Dominion ; Eifle.. Association of,-New. Zealand,-, to' be held at • Trentham: on -Thursday, March .3,-1910, and following days,. mayV.obtainr/jprogranimes'-.and .entry-forms for 'some -' applying • to! .the" District Defence. Office,. Government Buildings, Wellington; or to iStaff.Sergeant-Major Peacock, Wanganui; Staff• .Sergeant-Major.ll'Nair,.Napier;' Staff Sergeant.' JUajor Sanderson,-New Plymouth,-: Staff 'Ser- : ■geant-Major::M'Cristell,' "Masterton;: Staff Ser-; geant-MajorsDbyejv ■■ Palmerston -North.- ; -All entries for,same to bo forwarded direct to.'the isecretary,. Lieutenant. J. '. Ebache,"-. care" -of Friendly ; Societies' 'Department, '; Government Buildings,'-Wellington.-. On receipt 'of :■ same,-railway--passes will bei'forwarded: • -, r ' :'.■■;>-. ■ The: instfuotiohal 1 . charts''issued .'to ■ officers; commanding squadrons-and companies (includ-' :ing -cadet;.corps) are .'to bo -posed/:'in a ;'con-, epicuous : .place in 'the.drill-hall , ■or orderly-. ,ro,om for the; benefit of all'ranks,.'. No further ifree .■.issue/.'of ; these charts will be ■ made, /but further copies '-'can be had -on 'application to the director of 'stores, ■ Buckle Street,.Wellington, on payment, of l 3d.'--.each.■ : ... ';,', , .-. ■iV 'Corps .'.wno-iihtentl' to; compete/for; the.; Sargdod Cup-are.; , requested 'to-forward as-'early as.possible-to' this'oflice the- date on, \ which they- , , propdse -to carry''out. this-, competition;.- ■'■ .Officers.-comgianding; school-cadet' corpsi.in ; this "'district ■■■are-requested -vto.v notify.;; ihead- ■ quaftefs,.-Buckle"Street,;Wellington, as.Vpos'sible• whether ; the,.cadets, uhder-.-.their' command intend to take'part.in. tho. Schools* of tho Empire Shooting Competitions before the. end of;the present year;'. ;..-"; ■'%-'■- ~,.■' :':.-^ • .-; Instructions'.have ..been issued -by the ;,tfnder. Secretary, -Department ;.bf. Internal Affairs, 1 ..'t0 of, Goye'rnment Depirtm.ents, relative to obligation on such; officials^to isee.that cadets .joining, .their,' respective -DepartSerits".of;.th6'publio;service are;made.,to;serve : iree. years in ; a. vblunteef corps, from .date of /joining,; if;> eighteen, years.'.of.; age 'or 'over, or ,to- serve'three.years. from date:of eighteenth birthday .af.'undor .eighteen, years.- of;, age-:-at time of joining.' Civil, Servic e, cadets the Civil ■ Service Rifles' (where, such' corps exists),' unless po.rinission is Rranted. by-;6fEcer x commanding Civil-, Service; Rifles' and head of Department for tlie;cadet to join. another' corpi 'AllN.C;O.'s in the First Battalion,'Weilington Rifle Volunteers, • not in .possession <of proficiency,, aro requested.''to tend"at the drill-hall, Buckle Street, Wellington,? on December 9, 1908, at 7.30 p.m./ so -that they.'can bo'examined for same.- The *nridefmentioned. N.C.O.'s of :■ the Wairoa Mounted' Eiflos have passed the examination, for qualifying certificates:—C. G. Davis,,sergeant; J."PeppCT, 'sergeant; ?G. Walker, sergeant; andW Bremer, corporal. ';.;■■.-;- : ~. •.■'■■■ . : ;-f,; •;.';