MILITARY CAMP.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2960, 10 November 1925, Page 2

MILITARY CAMP.

Towards the end of the week about 160 men from the 17th Lower Hutt Medium Battery N.Z.A. will go into camp on the racecourse. The camp will be under the command of Lieut. Dillon, Adjutant, and will terminate on the" 21st November, to be followed immediately by a camp of the 7th Battery, from Palmerston North from the 21st to 27tli November. The last camp to be held this year will be that of the Bth Battery, also of Palmerston North, from the 27th to sth December.

Lieut. Dillon, accompanied by Staff Officers, arrived in town at midday to-day and are now making arrangements preparatory to the first camp.' Four six inch howitzers have arrived by rail and will be unloaded and removed to the racecourse immediately. Two six inch guns are on their - way up from Wellington by road, but as these tractors can only travel only about four miles an hour, it will be some time before they reach Foxton. Up to the present they have reached Paraparaumu without mishap.

The tractors that are bringing the guns by road are live ton Holt caterpiller tractors and are the first of that kind to reach New Zealand, being landed in Wellington last Friday. The Battery arriving on Thursday is the direct descendant of the Petone Naval Artillery Volunteers, who were the champion shooting company in Wellington, for many, years prior to the war. Firing with the field guns will be indulged in on the 14th and 16th and with the six inch Howitzers on the 18th and 19th of the month. Rev W. H. Walton will act as Padre during the camps. The men in camp will be pleased to receive illustrated paper's, magazines, books, etc., which may be left at this office.