A WEEK UNDER CANVAS

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 45, 17 November 1926, Page 10

A WEEK UNDER CANVAS

TERRITORIAL CAMP AT TRENTHAM Some 900 officers and men, comprising the Ist Battalion of the Wellington Regiment, will. leave Wellington for Trentham this week to a week’s course of training under canvas. The first detachment, consisting of officers and non-commissioned officers, will leave Lambton station to-night, and will undergo a “refresher” course of three days’ training before the arrival of the main body. On Saturday afternoon, by a special train leaving Lambton station at 2 p.m., the main body will leave. The men, who will be under the command of Lieut-enant-Colonel R. L. Evatt, will remain in camp until Saturday, November 27, by which time a comprehensive course of training will have been completed. This camp will differ from those held by the battalion in previous years, as the men will live under canvas. The course of training, also, will be somewhat different, as it will lead up to a tactical scheme, which will be carried out on November 26. A route march will form part of this scheme, the men marching from Trentham to bevond Upper Hutt, where the major part of the operations will take place. There will be the usual entertainments during the course of the camp, pictures being shown nightly. The last night at Trentham will be given up to' the customary camp concert.