NO. 4 COMPANY FIELD ENGINEERS' CAMP

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2416, 23 March 1915, Page 9

NO. 4 COMPANY FIELD ENGINEERS' CAMP

No. 4 Field Engineers, commanded by Lieutenant H. J. Hobbs, N.Z.E., assisted by Sergeant-Major'St. Leger and Company Sergeant-Major Kelloway, returned from their annual camp held at Waikanae by the Napier express on Saturday evening. The camp site was one : of the best ever selected in the North Island, and was situated on the racecourse within a short distance of the railway station. A most successful programme of work was got through, comprising squad, arm, and company drill, physical exercises, bathing parades, bridge-building, explosive demonstrations, entrenching, hasty demolishings, construction of barbed wire entanglements, field alarms, and various lectures on camp sanitation, and, above all, army discipline. The lectures on discipline were very attentively listened to. Not a single member of the company was reported or punished during the camp. The enthusiasm with whioh the company worked was worthy of great praise, the recruits who attended their first camp as Engineers displayed a remarkably keen interest in all their work and proved themselves a most valuable addition to this very important branch of the Territorial Service. Colonel Tate and Major Morrison visited the camp and addressed the company on important matters, comprising camp discipline, promotion, and regulations regarding troops travelling by rail to and from annual, or any camp. Captain Grover, N.Z.S. Corps, supervised all work, and expressed his satisfaction with all ranks, who had attended one of the most successful Territorial crimps lield in the Dominion. After tho day's work camp fires were held, aiso concerts, and visitors came from long distances to favour the troops with songs, recitations, etc. Mr. Parata, of Waikanae, and family, did all that was possible to assist at tire concerts, and the singing of tho Maori ladies will long ho remombered by all.

The mannor in which all ranks abided with camp discipline, and regulations, and placed their whole mind in their work should prove a first-class example to all who are, or may be, members of New Zealand's Territorial Forces.