NATIONAL RESERVE
MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE. : Tlie Headquarters Executive of the National Reserve at its last meeting received and.dealt with a number of reports from the outlying troops of the district, and general directions have been issued appointing officers to command also staffs and Medical Service Corps. The question of the clause recognising' tho Reserve under the Defence Act is still_ agitating the .minds of the Reservists throughout the Dominion, and tho proposed conference of District l Commanders was again further postponed, awaiting the introduction of ,the clause by the Hon. the Minister of Defence. Tho report of the Ammunitions Committee was received and . approved, samples of bombs and diagram® of projectors were shown, and subsequently submitted by the committee to the Hon. the Minister of Munitions. The Reserve is really now in a position to produce a complete chemical bomb if the manufacture is sanctioned in Now Zealand, the several parts composing the whole being, the work of technical members of the Reserve. .
The recommendation of the Uniform Comriiitteo to adopt a cap distinguishing the .Reserve was approved, and a circular on the subject has since been issued. . The Medical Service Corps officers assembled at the Headquarters to discuss with the Commandant the details of the various branches, St. John Ambulance and Nursing Sections. The Tosnlt was very satisfactory. The Group P.M.0., and other officers are' now making complete rolls for the purpose' of appointing officers, superintendents, matrons, etc., after which detachments will be detailed off,, to the several regiments and companies. It was resolved by tlie executive that tho president should apply to tho .Hon. the Ministor of Defence to obtain 15 or 20 thousand stands of serviceable arms, to be issued on loan or purchase to the members of tho Reserve, throughout the Dominion. In the alternative it was considered -that a similar inumber of the captured arms from Gallipoli or France miijht be obtainable, sufficiently serviceable for defence and drill purposes. , ■ ■
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2563, 10 September 1915, Page 6
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325NATIONAL RESERVE Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2563, 10 September 1915, Page 6
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