5000 TROOPS TO MARCH

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2584, 5 October 1915, Page 8

5000 TROOPS TO MARCH

SATURDAY'S PARADE.'.

The biggest military parade yet held 'in ; the: City will take place on: Saturday ; afternoon,: when the * SeV eiith Reinforce-. •ments and the First and the Second Battalions of the Trentham Rifle Bn;gadk> will march through The. '.City garrison troops/and the , Senior. Cadets have received instructions to ■ parade ■ for traffic Regulation duty..... - . Full i arrangemehts : have been' made" by the military ; and : the civil authorities for' the, parade, aridinstructions will .be given'.to the public through the newspapers.:;."Facilities will .he accorded to -, tho - relatives. of tho- soldiers to see their men, and they are tovhave admission to a special enclosure by tick-. Ms ' proo.urable; at a placo to bo .flxed.' Tha.-publio, >vill.;see-;the' troops only on tho march, and they, are asked not to encroach or to endeavour to encroach on tho enclosure reserved for next-of-;lciri'..' So much tronblo aud disorganisa-

tion have been.caused on. previous occasions concerning the delivery, of parcels ito soldiers, :that people' are • being asked to send all parcels to a special dcjxtt to bo. arranged, arid to send them by a definite hour on SaturdayVmqrmng.-Next-of-kin aro asked< not to rely, upon;being able to delivor piarcols into the hands ,of their relatives.. If the'gifts, are sent to 'the 'special depot the Defence Department will see', to the delivery. of them. ■ . ■