Volunteer Items
A supplementary Gazette issued on Tuesday morning makes further exception in regard to recruits for the torpedo and artillery by which the sons of police officers may be enrolled without any previous training in the Volunteer force, provided they are not less than five feet nine inches in height nor more than 25 years of age, and produce a satisfactory certificate as to character and fitness.
Honorary Major Purnell will be Captain of the Wauganui Reserve Corps. The Wanganui Garrison Baud is a great success. Proceedings are being taken in •Christchurch to recover the amounts of capitation which members have failed to qualify for. With referencs© to tbe Nelson Encampment, the Under-Secretary for Defence, to Colonel Pitt " that the Hon the Defence Minister was much pleased with the practical and useful rniinin.2; imparted to the Volunteers during the period for which the camp was held." The charges against the Auckland Volunteers have been dismissed, as the evidence was eonfiictirg. His Excellency the Governor has con- ■- aented to become president of ihcN.Z.B.A., . and Lady Onslow will deliver the prizes at the Dunedin meeting.
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 136, 23 May 1889, Page 3
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184Volunteer Items Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 136, 23 May 1889, Page 3
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