A BIG TREK
CHECKED BY RAIN : BUILDINGS UTILISED ON HANAWATD LINE f HOW THE MEN ARE FARING
, Rain fell so heavily on Saturday that the big trek out of Trentham Camp 'was interrupted. Advance parties, of course, had already gono forward (on Thursday, night aiid Friday morning), and some of tho troops also had reached their new: campmg grounds. The majority of those remammg were to have been moved out on Saturday. An early.start was maclo with the entrainment' arrangements, but later in- the day the: Chief of; Staff stated that the nvove ont had been postponed till Mondav. The Trentham "Regiment '! left foS Rangiotu on Friday night and Saturday morning, but the downpour' on the- Fox- 1 ton line had been so heavy that the men were taken to, Awapuni Racecourse; aiid quartered in the buildings there.- :• Buildings had to be sought bv tho Seventh Infantry also. Half of them had 'got mto■" their new camp at. ,Waikanae, but the shelter of buildings was subsequently provided for them. ' The other half were sent to Levin and housed there.'' . • The mounted men, are at Tauherini'ST T^ 6y arr ' vod there between; 6 .o clock aiid'7 o'clock on Friday evening. The officers and : iion-commissionfed officers'for the. .Eighth Reinforcements left Wellington by. tho 1.10 p.m. express on Saturday for Palmerston North. Tbey are to commence - their, training on the Showgrounds right away. In the. old. camp and all the new, camps all leave has been stopped. S Trentham Camp was still quarantined on Saturday., One could not enter without a pass, and could .not. leave on .any conditions—except through; evasion. Tho c2mp looked at its worst, in the morning, when tho rain was falling in torrents and tie wind was driving along the valley.. Always a muddy place, since winter set in,,Trentfiiun was at its worst last week-end. Tho heavy vehicles which traversed the roads and the unToaded camp Tvith load after load.' of goods;for one or other of tlie special trains bound for this or that new camp had put the whole place in a very bad condition. • ■ ....•'. .. ."
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2511, 12 July 1915, Page 6
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347A BIG TREK Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2511, 12 July 1915, Page 6
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