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Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 29 January 1908, Page 53

NORTH OTAGO MOUNTED RIFLES.

j „, (FkOM-OCB,'- O-Vrafj-COBIIEgPONDENTj)-. : V .'--•-'•" ,'OAMARU, "January 25.The' NpfthtOtago Mounted' R^es^cele'brarteSrthe'seompletion"'of 21 • years; of. • aeryice on-'-Thursday ; evenmß, • past' *nd Vresent xn'fembera of the corps assembled to celebrate' the occasion. - * " ". , The " corps' wasr- called into existence in " January, 1887, being^ the outcotue '"of an effort to form- an .Oamaru contingent, of the Otago Hussare. was first called the North Otago Hussars, and a few years later was tfansfo'rrried ' ' iriio -' the -present N.0.M.R." The-.fiwt'/captain, Mr R."'A\ Chafley, now lieutenant-colonel of North Canterbury '■ Mounted- Regiment," commanded the cofps. till Ke left.th'ie 'district, jrt April; 1897, and he was sucoeedediin order by Cvtain-tnow" Lieutenant - .colonel) Nichdlls, Captain Gillies, - arid Captain ; Ot. Ml)onald .(of Ravensbourne), wHo '_ is ■ stilV in command. Many of the members past members did good, service" in South , Africa, and it ■is understood that the corps provided more men ,and .officers any other corps. One major, four captains, and two lieutenants/ who . received their commissions in South Africa, were "old N.-0.M.R.. men. Amorij^ those present at^Thur6dav'sj re-. union -w«re^-Colc>nels Nicholls and Chaffey,, Chaplain. Archdeacon- Gould, and a number of other pa«i officers and' 'men. The gathering was_an iriterestirip;""6ne, and reminiscent stories' floived^ freely. '" ; ' . " , - j