THE PERMANENT AETILLERY.
0P TO FULIf STRENGTH. For the first, time within three year! 'the Permanent ■ Defence Artillery are now up to ftill strength, and will l>o expected during the-present year to tarry out service practice, The Field Company Engineers have flow an inetriictor from Home, in tho person of Captain Edwards, and it is anticipated that this branrh will mako steady .progress in tho future.. Four engineer sergeant-majors arc espeeted to arrive from Home by any boat now, mid they will replace t]w four sorfioalit-msjors taten over by the Railway Engineers. The latter branch have jna.de moro p,fecress than , any of the other Eitßineet branches lately, iffiiinly owing to the interest talscn ta them by Colonel Hiloy. Their pTOgross is shown by tho fact that after very little preparation they took second and third places i-i tho' physical drill competition At tho went military tonmaniont. All branches of tJio Field Artillery will eo under canvas when tho big camps are held in April for inspection by Sir Inn Hamilton, Inspector-General of tb» Overseas Forces, |
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1957, 14 January 1914, Page 8
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175THE PERMANENT AETILLERY. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1957, 14 January 1914, Page 8
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