DOMINION DAY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 926, 20 September 1910, Page 4

DOMINION DAY.

THE .MILITARY,.ARRANGEMENTS.) In connection with the Dominion/Day celebrations in) -Wellington on Monday next, September 26," the following battalion order has I)been''-issued'. by: Lieut.-' Colonel W. G. Duthie, Officer Commanding'the: First Wellington Infantry .Battalion:— .. '~.- '■" ■ : .'"'■-" "Pursuant: to- district order, .the •'■ battalion will parade at the Public Trust Office'-on Monday,.September 26/ Domin-, ion Day, at 6.45 .p.m.'. sharp. Dress: Pull dress. ' ''/'."'./,• ..-'-';/■•' "Those - without full/ dress will wear khaki, and' will .be formed : into a single company." :. ■.. ■; ■■ Orders to the same effect have also been issued .by Lieut.-Colonel G.'F.'C Campbell, Officer Commanding the Garrison Artillery Division, to the' divisional units. .' '■ ' ■ -- ".).,':: ;'■/)■.'' The Royal New Zealand. Artillery will furnish the guard of honour;to.lns Excellency the Governor at the, cadet review, at Newtown Park in the /afternoon.) Arrangements have -also been' ■■ made for. the Garrison -Band to be in attendance, the: rate 0f... payment for this "daylight parade" being at the rate of 65.. per. man. In connection with. the - lighting arrangements for the evening parade at the Basin Reserve it has-practically been de-. cided to equip a searchlight station, wit]i dynamo, at a suitable point -at Alexandra Barracks),' under.) a detachment of .the Royal' New Zealand' . Engineers."' This powerful illuminant will suffice for the lighting of nearly) the whole of that..portion of the Basin occupied by .the troops, \and will be/supplemented by,a../"projector" station at xne Basin, which will tap .the. municipal power mains for -its en.ergy.>"'"'';.;v.;; '''.".•'..•.'■'■•' .')•'. -'-')-\ "'■"/•' It the: annual.meeting of.the".Welling-, ton.branch of the Royal :New) Zealand Association of His Majesty's/-Veterans,. a letter -was received from .tbe Prime Minister . (Sir Joseph -Ward),: conveying a, 'cordial ' invitation) for.. /members/,; of. the .branch- to attend l the cadet; review .at Newtown Park-on. Dominion' Day,' : and stating that.arrangements^would be.made: for' their accommodation "at; the 'saluting base., The. invitation; was/ accepted.- with thanks..'' '././;..' ';■'';.'--)"■:■