FIRST TERRITORIAL CAMP.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 970, 10 November 1910, Page 4

FIRST TERRITORIAL CAMP.

KEEN ENTHUSIASM IN AUCKLAND. By their .keen enthusiasm in putting in seven clear' days' training in camp, the Auckland Territorial Infantry Battalion has set an example for the other battalions ,in New Zealand to follow. The reversion to tho old system.of holding regimental camps once so popular in the volunteer force seems likely to be regarded with favour by the territorials. In Auckland, ■ the men turned out in strong force, obtained the necessary leave from their employers, and put in a strenuous week under canvas. During the course of a conversation with Colonel A. W. Robin, C.8., Chief of the Gene/al Staff, who was in Auckland last week, a representative of The Dominion gathered that the camp had been a very successful one. Some little inconvenience, he said, had been felt by certain employers, whose respective staffs had been materially reduced by reason of the fact that quite a number of the men in the employ of each wanted to. get away for the camp. Under the new. scheme, explained ■ Colonel Robin to the interviewer, this inconvenience would be remedied by drafting territorials in tho employ of any particular firm into separate branches of the service, so that instead of the whole of them being called out for camp training at one time, as would bo tho case were they members of the same branch, they would be drawn upon individually and at separate periods, for the camps .of the various branches would bo held at different periods. By this system inconvenience to employers would be reduced to a minimum.