CAMPING SEASON

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 247, 9 January 1928, Page 11

CAMPING SEASON

TERRITORIAL FORCES The total strength of the Auckland command, about 6,500 territorials, will go through camps at Ngaruawahia, Narrow Neck, Waiuku, Whangarei and Whakatane in the next five months. There are about 1,000 mounted rifles. 1,300 artillerymen, 300 engineers, 3.500 infantrymen, 200 of Army Service Corps and 200 of the medical corps. The dates and the officers commanding the camps are as follow: January 14 to 21, at Ngaruawahia. A.S.C. depot, Captain Pride; January 21-28, Ngaruawahia, 4th Field Battery, Major Stilweil; January 2S-February 4, Ngaruawahia, 3rd Field Batters*, Captain H. H. Osmere: February 4-11, Ngaruawahia, 2lßt Field Battery; February i 11-18, Ngaruawahia, Ist Field Battery, Major Folkard: February 11-17, Nar- | row' Neck, Medical Depot, Lieut.i Colonel MacCormick: February 11-18, ! Ngaruawahia, Engineer Depot, Major Dow; February 10-18, Ngaruawahia, Ist Battalion Auckland Regiment (University students, February 8-18), i LieuL-Colonel Dawson; February 1825, Ngaruawahia, Ist Battalion Waikato, Lieut.-Colonel Closey; February ; 18-25. •Ngaruawahia, 2nd Field Battery ; (Hamilton), Major Baxter; February 25-March 3, 20th Pack Battery. Ngaruawahia. Major H. P. Warnock; March 1-9, Whangarei. Ist Battalion North Auckland Regiment. Lieut.-Colonel Lockie; March 3-14). Ngaruawahia. 18th Medium Battery. Lieutenant Rowland; April 2-10, Waiuku. 3rd Mounted Rifles, Lieut.-Colonel Aldred; April 12-21, Whangarei, 9th Mounted Rifles. Lieut.Colonel Hemphill; April 22-May 1, Ngaruawahia, also May 6-14. Whakatane, 4th Mounted Rifles, Lieut.-Colonel Wyman. The annual course of instruction of secondary school X.C.O.s will be held jat Narrow Neck from January 30 to February 4, under Major W. C. Finnic. ’•The non-secondary school N.C.O’s will go to camp from February 6 to 11 at Narrow Neck, under Major Blair.