VOLUNTEERS RESPOND
TO PRESERVE BATTERY ■When volunteers were called for to continue training as the Fourth Howitzer Battery. 69 out of the 70 present at a meeting in the Drill Hall offered their services. Captain A. A. Currey, the battery commander, explained the pew establishment of the defence forces to the members assembled. Under the proposed new system, since compulsory training had been abolished, the battery would consist of four officers and 19 non-commis-sioned officers. If no additional expenditure were to bo necessary, the Defence Department had no objection to men being enrolled in excess of the new establishment. Those who volunteered for service considered that tire annual earnp was the most attractive feature of their training. Major Stillwell, the commander of the First Field Brigade, addressed the men.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1033, 25 July 1930, Page 8
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129VOLUNTEERS RESPOND Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1033, 25 July 1930, Page 8
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