VOLUNTEER RECOMMENDATIONS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 14 September 1901, Page 4

VOLUNTEER RECOMMENDATIONS.

(our parliamentary rs.ortbr)

Wellington’, This Day. The Commander of the forces in his annual report recommends more open air training for volunteers. A week’s camp and a week’s battalion drill for mounted corps. That the field artillery should be rendered mobile, and that the battalion system should be introduced in regard to the four centres.

Captains of rifle clubs must praetiee their men at unknown ranges and almost invisible targets, and in judging distances, A sufficient supply of ’303 magazine arms ho reports has been ordered from England to equip the whole of our forces and maintain a small reserve, and the •302 Manini-Enfields will be available for sale to the Government rifle clubs.

The Government, has entered into a contract with rn an mutttionOo. lo c upply annually 2,0C0,00b rounds of final, arms ammunition. He recommends the establisV merit of a veterinary branch of the volunteer force, and in conclusion remarks with pleasure that he leaves the d donee forces of the Colony in condition much better fitted to take the field than when ho entered upon his command.