ANNUAL STAFF TOUR.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1974, 3 February 1914, Page 9

ANNUAL STAFF TOUR.

INTERESTING AND -INSTRUCTIVE.' "A most, interesting and instructive tour," said 'Colonel E. , S. Heard, Chief of Staff, to a reporter yesterday, when referring' to the annual staff tour held in the vicinity of .Cambridge last week. It also served the purposoof bringing senior Territorial officers into touch with one another. These.staff tours ore held only for senior officers, whose duty then is to pass the instruction on. Many minor tours take place during the year, when the lessons learnt at the annual "Dominion drives"' are again carried out. As was explained in The Dominion last week, the operations represented actual conflict, with tho troops absent. Colonel A- W. Robjn was director of the red - forces, and ' Colonel ■' E. W. C. Chaytor of the blue, with General •Godley as Director-in-Chief. About fifty officers attended, there being about an, equal number of Imperial and local raw. The use of motor-cars greatly facilitated the operations, which would otherwise have extended over a couple of weeks. A number of officers.of the Motor Service wore present; and they placed their cars at the disposal of the commanders, and themselves followed the operations with great interest...