MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2857, 23 August 1916, Page 5

MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS

BETWEEN VARIOUS CAMPS. The Eighteenth Infantry Reinforcements have removed from their quarters in hutments at Featherston Camp, into tho canvas camp there. This camp of tents has been closed sinco tho Seventeenths leti it to g« on their extended leavo three weeks a»o. In the interval a great deal of work has been done to make the camp a dry one. All tho roads and paths aro now gravelled, each tent having a gravel path to its entrance. On Soptembcr 1 the 19th Specialists Company will begin their extended leave. These troops went into camp with tlio Eighteenth Reinforcements, boing subsequently selected for special duty, and attached, to the Nineteenths. This practice is always followed in regard to tho Specialists, who comprise machine-gunners and signallers, so that theso troops have a month's moro training than other drafts. ' A portion of the Nineteenth Infantry Reinforcements will transfer from Tauhercnikau to Trentham on September 2 for musketry, and on' September 6 the balanco of the Nineteenths will follow to receive similar training. About September 7 the Eighteenth Reinforcements will go on their extended leave, and between that date and September 10 tho Nineteenths will return' to Tauhorcnikau from Trentham.