LOYAL WAIRARAPA

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2301, 7 November 1914, Page 8

LOYAL WAIRARAPA

TROOP FORMED. AT KAHAUTARA. About sis or seven weoks ago the farmers' and farm-assistants round aliout Tinui—the district that stretches from Master to n towards the east coast —formed themselves voluntarily 1 into a troop of rough-riders, and by assiduously training every week are already' a fairly efficient corps for mounted work. 1 ~ It is now known that the farmeijs the lower Wairarapa Valley have taken up-the idea, and have formed themselves into tho Kahautara Mounted Rifles— Kahautara (on the road to tho Lake Ferry) being'the assembling point. There they have already raised a splen-didly-mounted troop of 6i'xty men, and it is anticipated that they will have no difficulty in raising the corps to that of a complete unit—loo strong. When Mr: H. F. Allen visited Featherston this week has services as a Justice of tho Peaco were secured to swear the members in.. He says that the Wairarapa men are all keen patriots. One of the men, when being sworn, insisted that the wording of the oath to servo until ho is legally discharged be altered to serve "until lie, is s'fiot." When it was pointed out that this' was not tho usual wording, he said: "Just let it stand as it is, mister!"