LOCALE OF OUR NEW BATTERY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 833, 3 June 1910, Page 4

LOCALE OF OUR NEW BATTERY.

NOT WELLINGTON. Although nothing definite is yet known with regard to the locality of"the headquarters of the additional fouT-gun fieldbattery, which, under the new establishments, is to raised in the Wellington district command, it is practically certain that it will not be situated in Wellington City. From an examination of the district and the, distribution of the lines of transport by rail and road, it oeems probable that one of three courses will be decided upon by the authorities (1) The battery may be stationed a± Palmerston, from which centre the guna may at any time be sent through to the East Coast on the one side, or to the West Coast—Foxton, Wanganui, New Plymouth—on the other; (2) a half baitory may be stationed, at Palmerston, ana another at Napier ;'(3) one half battery may be stationed at Wanganui, and the other at Napier. It is also probable that the field engineer company, raised to 212 under tn« new establishment, may be cut up in much the same way—a detachment of 100 at Wellington, 50 at Palmerston, and 50 at Napier. The whole .company would, of course, come together on mobilisation, either for' peace manoeuvres or for tho necessity of war.