Volunteer Notes.
While engaged in musketry practice recently (says the Wellington evening paper) a local volunteer corps had a somewhat startling experience, showing either bad workmanship in the making of the rifles used, or, as is more probably the case, faulty ammunition. The corps in question was shooting at the Polhill Gully range, and during the afternoon no less thansix rifles were' rendered useless. If ; this could happen in a corps of about •100 men in one afternoon’s shooting, , what might happen if our forces were engaged in a campaign of any length ,of duration ? Surely something should be done by the authorities Jto guard against this sort of thing, which is happening only too frequently,. '
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Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2089, 26 March 1898, Page 2
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116Volunteer Notes. Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2089, 26 March 1898, Page 2
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