Volunteer News
COLONEL POLE PENTON AT NAPIER, (Per Press Association.) Napier, July 1. Colonel Pole Penton, after inspecting the Artillery Volunteers, paid them a high compliment, but said their guns were useless and their drill obsolete. They could not be properly drilled without modern weapons and there was no money for the purchase of new guns. He therefore bad to offer them the alternative of disbanding or forming themselves into a rifle corps. The officers expressed great disappointment at the decision, as the battery had been kept together and worked bard in the expectation of being supplied with modem weapons, but they would do their beat to induce their men to join the rifle*. It is expected that they will do so, but the Navals, to whom a Bimilar intimation was made, are expected to disband.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 2, 2 July 1897, Page 2
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