BACK HOME AGAIN

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 897, 14 February 1930, Page 11

BACK HOME AGAIN

NARROW NECK CAMP BREAKS UP

WEATHER TOO BAD Thoroughly soaked and none toe cheerful after a morning spent in their mess huts, the men of the Ist. Battalion, the Auckland Regiment, returned to their homes this afternoon after their annual training at Narrow Neck camp. During the spell of fine weather all had been well under canvas, but steady rain overnight soon sent many streams coursing through, the tents. Many sleepers had been forced to take shelter in the huts and at daybreak the remainder of the battalion followed. It was decided to break camp a day early, and shortly after midday the men were paid off and sent by companies to the City. When Major-General R. Young. G.0.C., was in Auckland yesterday, the petition signed by the trainees asking that Captain J. G. C. Waks, adjutant to the battalion, be in that position, was referred to him. He promised that Captain Wales would he posted hack to the battalion, immediately on his return from Samoa, where it was hoped he would be needed for only a short period. "The spirit of the camp has been even better than at any time before." said Lieut.-Colonel T. H. Dawson, who commanded the camp, addressing the men before they disbanded. “The battle, too, was carried through excellently and showed better skill than Woofit.” He considered the manner in which the trainees had set to work to clear the camp this morning in pouring rain proved that they were not lacking in initiative and in readiness to adopt themselves to conditions.