THE TRAINING SEASON.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1644, 10 January 1913, Page 5

THE TRAINING SEASON.

: . ; BRIGADE CAMPS. : vTlw-MK-is traiuiajr:season; in camp, of; tho Now, Zealand Territorial Forco will commence in real earnest oarlyin'February, the Auckland Field Artillery Ark-ado loading off with its fortnight at Morrins- • villo.from.Febm&ry. 7t-15.. Frini :then ■onwards 'tho: instructional staff. will bo busily engaged right up till May 24, the oloso of tho training year,:.. This is' not to say, of course,' that. thero ha 9 been no training worth speaking ; of ' during tho months which have elapsed sinco Juno 1 last—the beginning of the Territorial year.. Indoor parades, half: and wholeday outdoor parades, hare gone on all tho time, and tho vsluo of tho instruction ■ given during these months will be thoroughly tested in tho tented field, -whentho call comes to tho various regiments to proceed to their respective campings grounds. The camps this year will bo by brigades—last year they' wero by'rcgipresumably tho next'step will be divisional mobilisation, 1 for.-, manoeuvres. That, however, remnira to bo seen. Tho motto of the ImperiE.l staff is to make haste slowly:; So far as tho Wellington Military District is concern-. ! ed, tho-.dates and localities are as follows •Wellington Coast Defence Command (Colonel G. F» C. Campbell).—February 14 ■ —22. ■•. .:■■ ■■■ ■ .'■ ■.: Wellington Field Artillery Brigaded—At Oringi, March 7—15. No. 4 Compauy, New Zealand Engineers, Wellington infantry Brigade, find No.; 5 Company, Now Zealand Field Ambulance.—At Oringi, April 14—2G.\ Wellington Mounted Brigade, and No. 8 Company, Mounted Field Ambulaneo.— At Oringi, May 5—17. , A Squadron of tho 9th (East Coast) Mounted Regiment, from its isolated Situation, will train at Gisborno, as a company, from March 13—25. . Tho Wellington Coast Defenco Command includes the Fifth (Wellington) Infantry Regiment (Colonel C. H. Turner), tlw three companies of tho Garrison Artillery Division (Lieutonant-Colonol F. J, Courtney), and tho D Battery (Wellington Mountain Artillery—Major Potherick). Thcso would comprise ono unit on general mobilisation, and their operations would bo restricted to the defence of tho port of Wellington,: tho forts being supplemented by the regiment of infantry (the "Fifth"), and tho battery of liowitzci's (D Battery). During the period of tho coast defenco units training, tho Fifth Hegiimont will encamp at Trcntham, and tho gunners will be at tho forts. D Battery's location lias not yet been stated.