MILITARY TRAINING.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2385, 15 February 1915, Page 6

MILITARY TRAINING.

CAMP DATES & DISTRICT ORDERS

AND INSTRUCTIONS

District Orders issued from District Headquarters, Palmerston North, by Colonel 11. W. Tate,- Officer Commanding the Wellington Military District, give full particulars of the annual and casual camps to be held in the Wellington District this year. Following is the list of camps arranged:— 11th Regiment (Taranaki), lliflc Range, New Plymouth, February 26 to March 10.

"C" Sec. No. -1 Field Ambulance, March 2 to 10.

"D" (Mountain) Battery), on trek, February 27 to March 6. No. 4 Field Engineers, Racecourse, March 12 to 20.

Divisional Signal Company, Waikanae, March 12 to 20.

Mounted Signal Troop, March 8 to 20. . ' '

Nos. 3 and 4 Company, A.S.C., March 6 -to 20..

9th (Hawke's Bay) Regiment (less "C" Company),' Pukehou, March 5 to 19.

7th (W.W.C.), Racecourse, Marton, March 11 to 23.

oth (Wellington), Regiment, Miramar, March 29 to April 10. "A" Sec. 4 Field Ambulance, April 2 to 10.

17th (Ruahine), Opaki Racecourse, April 12 to 24.

"B" Sec. No. 4 Field Ambulance, Opaki, April 16 to .24.

6th Manawatu Mounted, Wercroa, April 12 to 24.

"A" Sec. No. S Mounted Ambulance, Weraroa, April 12 to 24. 9th (W.E.C.), Mounted (less "A" Squadron), Tikokino,. April 15 to 29. "B" Sec. No. 8 Mounted Ambulance, Tikokino, April 17 to 29. Field Artillery Brigade, April 30 to May 8.

Q.A. 2nd (W-W.C.) Mounted, Waverley Racecourse, April 30 to May 14. Casual camps will be held at Paliner6ton North as follow: —

May 3 to 15. —Infantry, No. 4 Field Ambulance, Army Service Corps. May 17 to 29.—Mounted Rill eg, Mounted Signal Troop, No. 4 Field Engineers, Divisional Signal Company, No. 8 Mounted Ambulance.

A casual camp will be held at f.-tis-borne from May 17 to 31, and Field Artillery casuals will be held at Wellington, Napier, and Palmerston North.

In all Camp Standing Orders a paragraph is to be inserted prohibiting the bringing of liquor into camp, vide Section 59, Defence Act, 1909, and Section 10, Defence Amendment Act, 1910. Units are'required to'bring into camps the following musketry appliances:— Aiming rests,, aim correctors, eye discs, dummy cartridges, 25 yards .target frames and targets, necessary .303 ball ammunition, forms 890 and. 893 entered to date.

Leave of absence from the annual training camp may be sparingly granted by 0.0. Units, on the proper form, to men willing to attend the casual camps. If exoessive leave from the annual camps is granted, the casual camps (it is pointed out) will bccome unwieldly. Leave of absence from both annual and casual camps can be granted by a Magistrate only.

The rolls are to be prepared before going into camp, every man on the strength being included. On arrival in camp, all absenteos are to be ruled out .in. red ink.

Members in the Government employ aro to he placed on separate rolls and the name of the Department they belong to i 6 to bo shown in the column of remarks. These men will not be paid in camp. The. names of all men absent from the annual camp without leave will be handed to tlie police for prosecution without delay.

In every ease, where a man is carry ing out bis annual camp training with a unit other than his own, care is to bo taken that the Headquarters of his unit is so informed, in order that he may be credited with the training done,, and wrongful prosecution prevented. It 16 to be clearly - understood that units are not to take men. on she Reserve into camp without authority from District Headquarters. Claims for expenses of troops travelling to camp will be paid in camp. Care must be taken that- every man obtains a receipt for out-of-pocket expenses, showing full details of how the amounts are made up, otherwise no claim will be recognised. The instructors appointed for the camp at Mirnmar are: Staff S.M. (W. 0.) J. Thompson, R.S.M.: SergeantInstructor A. 0. Crossah, R.Q..M.5.; StafF-Sergeaut-Jlajor ,T. J. Corkill; Ser-geant-Major J. Ryan; Sergeant-Major F. H. Weichern; Sergeant-Instructor R. E, J. Martin; Sergeant-Instructor F. A. Blacklin (Ambulance Instructor).