OUR SOLDIERS.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, last flight.
The North Island Battalion Ninth Contingent is getting on well in their drill at the camp at Te Papapa, and all indications are that when the month’s instruction is at an end the battalion will be thoroughly well trained. Officers and the staff instructors report the men well behaved and very keen to learn their work. An experienced non-commissioned instructor said to-day that he had never known such a number of men under similar conditions to have been on the whole so well conducted. Two more officers, Lieutenants Bruee Beale and Grace, from the South, have arrived, and are doing duty in the camp. There are a considerable number of men temporarily on the sick list from dysentery, presumably caused by change of water. The quality of the water supply, however, is excellent, and sickness is expected to cease in a few days. This afternoon a trooper, named Allen, from the Hawera district, was taken into the hospital from the camp, suffering from pneumonia. Fifty-five horses arrived to-day by the Te Anau from Gisborne for the contingent.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 346, 21 February 1902, Page 2
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185OUR SOLDIERS. Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 346, 21 February 1902, Page 2
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