MUSTERED IN.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1287, 16 November 1911, Page 11

MUSTERED IN.

4 TEE YOUNG PETONE NAYAIS. The Petone Navals (No. 5 Company Garrison Artillery) mustered on Tuesday evening, tho parade including the first appearance of tho now men posted to tho norps under the compulsory . system. \bout PO por'oent. of those posted were present, uud Captain- Bovan was in command.

Tho evening was devoted to swearing in and measuring tho new men for uniforms, nfter which they did a first trial in simple drill movements. 'It had been prophesied on many sides that a recurrence of'the lawlessness manifested at tho HuH Drillshed during the registration might be expected, but the prophesy was not fulfilled.

At the conclusion Captain Bevan addressed tho new men. He pointed out that the more readily tho recruits mastered their elementary drill tho more quickly would they bo drafted to moTO interesting work. Ho asked them to recollect that in obeying tho mandate to eqmpulsory training they were onlv obeying the law of tho country, and that whatever their feelings might bo individually about the system, they should do what had to ho done with a goodwill, not forgetting that they had been attached to a corps with a high reputation for shooting and efficiency, and that when once they put on the uuiform of the corps the honour arid traditions of the Poto-i Vaya!s and of the district would bo in thotf keeping. A rathor unsoldierlike "app;ausc" followed. There wore present on parade Captain Bovan, Lieutenants Hollis, Matthews, and Kirk, of the company, and Lieutenant Richmond • and Sergeaut-Major Cook, lt.A./,.A. All duties in connection with swearing-in and measuring and shed arrangements wcro carried out bv the corps' own non-commissioned officers,'directed by Sergeaut-Major Finlay and Quartermas-ter-Sergeant Cruickshank.