CONSOLIDATING THE VOLUNTEERS.
If will be intei eating to \ohmteeis to leatn that the Miniver of Defence i 1i 1 - favourable to an amalgamation of the stionyer with weaker corp^, -o as to ha\e fewer companies ot irrcater strength than at present. He would be glad to see Xaval and Garrimju Artillery Corp* at the four centre-* wheie foi titication? are established, to be i ecruited up to a -tiencjth of 250 men at each centre, and litle companies inereised trom 63 to 100. Uq saj - he will consider if thib can l)e done by amalgamation. If the revenue -how? any elasticity at all, he will see if an e\tia capitation ot Cl per man, or a* near that sum as po?-ible, cannot be crhen to Na\aK and Artilleijmen, and the [>rc-ent authorised capitation extended to 100 liHemen in each coips instead of 63.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 275, 23 June 1888, Page 4
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144CONSOLIDATING THE VOLUNTEERS. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 275, 23 June 1888, Page 4
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