ENTHUSIASTIC VOLUNTEERS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 767, 16 March 1910, Page 4

ENTHUSIASTIC VOLUNTEERS.

i Sir,—l notice in .your paper remarks about 'the distance some of the volunteers had to travel to assemble at the Kitchener camp at Auckland, quoting as instances Mounted Rifles. I think • the Hurumua Mounted Rifles (Wairoa, H. 8.) con justly' l claim to lave travelled the farthest distance to' assemble' at 1 ' the. Kitchener camps, of all the troops in New Zealand. /The Wairoa, .wing rode; 93: miles to' Napier 'to catch • the train,; while the Tiniroto wing of the same company rode 47 miles' before they picked up the Wairoa wing, while again two men of the Tiniroto wing had 32" miles ,to ride before they picked up the main body of their wing. Thus, you; see,.: that two men rode 172 miles to the train at Napier, the Tiniroto wing had 140 miles to -~ do, and the rest had 93, and even when, after all that travelling, they got to Wellington, there was not a company to beat them for horses and appearance. .1 don't remember the exact trnin mileage from Napier , to Wellington, but it is something over.2oo, is it not?— I am, etc., tangata, whawhai; Wairoa, March 10. .