ARTILLERY OFFICERS' INSTI. TUTE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 808, 4 May 1910, Page 6

ARTILLERY OFFICERS' INSTI. TUTE.

For the winter session of the' current year the members of the AVellington .Artillery. Officers' Institute have arranged a . very interesting programme of lectures for the weekly club nights. A time-table has been drafted for each evening, the first part being devoted to a lecture and discussion on certain warships—British and foreign—and the second to somo other topio of a more or less technical bearing on the artillery arm of the service. The full course of lectures, as scheduled, is as follows: —

I May 13.—Warships: Queen and Kaiser (Captain Ellis); "Tactics of the Three Arms in Attack and Defence." (Licut.Colonel E. AV. C.' Chaytor. May ,21 (Saturday).—Reconnaissance of Watts's Peninsula by Mounted Party. May27.—Warships: Swiftsure aud Wittelsbach (Captain Sommerville); "Cooperation of various arms in an Attack on Watts's Peninsula" (Lieut,-Colonel G. F. C. Campbell). June 10.—Warships: King Edward and Braunschweig (Caplain A. Hume); "Operation Orders and Map Reading" (Captains Mickle and Chesney). June ai.—Warships; Lord. Nelson and Doutschland (Lieut. Bevan); War Game (officers). , . „ • ■ July 8.— Warships: Dreadnought and Ersatz Sachsen (Captain Mickle); War Game concluded (officers). July 22.—Warships: Super-Dread-noughts, British and German (Captain Morton); "Examination Service in Port Nicholson, in War" (Major Courtney). August s.—Warships: 1.-C. cruisers now in tho Pacific (Captain Slowman); "Electric Light Service, Wellington Harbour" (Captain Hume); "Best Typo of Field Piece for the Wellington District" (D Battery officers). T , August 19.—Warships: Latest cruisers, British and Goiman (Lieut.' Meredith); "Progress.of Gunnery" (Captain fiiciiardSeptember 2. —"A Few Problems in the Naval and Military Defence of the Empire" (Captain Richardson). Following upon tho conclusion of the above syllabus, two nights will be devoted to lectures, • illustrated with lantern slides, on "Wellington's Canioaigus," -iy Captain Richardson.