VISIT TO TRENTHAM.
A PARLIAMENTARY EXCURSION. Members of Parliament with their friends visited Trentham Cauip> yester- • day aftornoon. ; A special excursion had been arranged, leaving by special train at 1.10 p.m., arming at the camp siding .at 2 p.m. About' 300 people made the trip. Almost all the Ministers were present, and the members were well represented, but it..was that none of the irreconcilable adverse critics of the Defence Administration wore . there. Among the military, officers present wero Brigauier-General Robin (Commandant), Colonel C. M. Gibbon (Chief of the General Staff), Surgeon-General Henderson (Director of Medical Services), and most of the other officers of (he General Staff A most interesting programme had been arranged for the benefit of the visitors, Thoy looked over the camp first of all_' and then went out to see the soldiers at work. . They saw engineers constructing rafts ..for' bridges, and examined other contrivances they'-had .made, and then went on to see the infantry. An attack on trenches, following upon a' "crater" explosion, was carried through by two companies of the 13th Reinforcements with' rifle fire, hand grenades, and bayonet..: Various units were put through interesting 'parts of their musketry work, and on the range visitors had an : opportunity of seeing a machinc-guu operated. After-this the party were taken over the general parado ground, where squads of recruits were, being instructed in musketry,'bayonet fighting, and in the more elementary preparatory'.training. Last of all the band came out, and the troops assembled, marching past in column of route, and so to quarters. General Robin took the salute for the march-past. This .ceremonial was impressive, for a body of 4000 troops looks very imposing when paraded for ceremonial, and most of the units—all except the very newest recruits showed smartness and precision. All wero keen on their task, and steady to a man.
Beforo leaving, the visitors wore enter tained at afternoon tea.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2777, 23 May 1916, Page 7
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315VISIT TO TRENTHAM. Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2777, 23 May 1916, Page 7
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