TERRITORIAL CAMPS

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 105, 28 January 1935, Page 3

TERRITORIAL CAMPS

Arrangements Concluded OPENING IN FEW DAYS Summer camps for training volunteer territorials will be opened at Waipukurau at the end of this week, and will continue with one break until February 23. Comprehensive and interesting courses have been planned. The 2nd Field Company of the New Zealand Engineers, the Central Depot of the New Zealand Signallers, aud the 2nd Composite Company of the New Zealand Army Service Corps will be the first to go under canvas. The officers and non-commissioned officers from these units will enter the camp for their special course on Wednesday January 30. The other members of the camp’s complement will begin training on Saturday, February 2, when approximately 240 will be under canvas. The course will finish on February 9. Advance parties from each unit will go to the camp on January 29. The engineers will do bridging and other field work, the signallers will practice making and maintaining communications, and the service corps will be given drill in supplying a brigade. On Thursday and Friday, February 7 and 8, the three units will undertake combined training. Bridges will be built by the engineers to allow the other units to advance and retire, and the signallers will undertake communication work for both manoeuvres. They will remain out overnight to out outpost work, and this will enable the service corps to practice providing supplies to advanced positions. While the training is going on the social side of camp life will not be neglected, and a dance has already been arranged for Tuesday, February 5. Midway through the following week officers and non-commissioned officers of the 2nd New Zealand Infantry Brigade will commence a special three-day course, and on Saturday, February 16, other ranks of the Ist Battalion Wellington Regiment, the Ist Battalion Hawke’s Bay Regiment, the Ist Battalion Taranaki Regiment, and the 2nd Field Ambulance will enter the- camp for a course concluding on February 23. They will carry out the usual infantry training, including field work with aeroplane co-operation.