MILITARY CAMP.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5077, 19 January 1927, Page 2

MILITARY CAMP.

TRAINING AT NGARUAWAHIA. OVER 4000 MEN TO ATTEND. Over 4000 trainees from the Auckland and Waikato districts will undergo courses, o’f instruction, according tp the unit, at the Ngaruawahia military camp, in the period between January 22 next and the end of April. Each section of trainees will spend over a week in camp, and will probably be inspected by the G.O.C. N.Z. Forces. The course, will be a comprehensive one. and the camp commandant is to be Major H. C. Glendinning, D. 5.0., N.Z.S.C. The first contingent. consisting of the northern depot of the Army Service Corps, will arrive in camp on January 22 and remain there until January 29. On January 26 the Ist Battalion Waikato Regiment, with a strength o’f approximately 600, will go to Ngaruawahia for a course extending until February 5. They will be 'fallowed by the 2nd Battery of New Zealand Artillery from Hamilton, from February 5 to 12, the latter being about, 150 strong. Trainees to the number of approximately 1200, belonging to the Ist Battallion Auckland Regiment, will be at Ngaruawahia ’from February’ 9 to 19, and concurrently with them in camp will be the 4th Howitzer Battery, whose course of training starts on February 12. From February 17 to 26 the Ist Battalion Hauraki Regiment, with a strengh of about, 500, will be in camp, while the 3rd Battery’ New Zealand Artillery, will undergo a course of training from February 19 to 26. They will number about 150. During the same period the Northern Depot, df New Zealand Engineers, consisting of some ISO trainees, will be in camp. From February- 26 to March 5 the 21st Battery, from Onehunga, is scheduled ’for a course of training, its strength being about. 125, while the 20 Pack Battery, 150 trainees, will be at Ngaruawahia 'from March sto 12. Another unit in at the same time is t.o be the Ist Battery from Auckland, whose strength is approximately 150. * The Ist Battalion, North Auckland Regiment, will proceed to. camp on April 2 and remain there till April 9. They total over 500 trainees. They ’ are to be followed by’ the 4th Mounted Rifles, who will stay’ in camp from April 25 to April 30.