VOLUNTEER NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 76, 28 March 1903, Page 2

VOLUNTEER NOTES.

| The following volunteer notifications are gazetted : —Appointments : Wil j liam E. Percival to ba lieutenant jHawera Mounted Rifles; Hf-nry R. \ Hill, to be lieutenant Opunake Mounted i Rides ; Trncy P, Wille, tobslieurenaut jPahiatua Mounted Rifles; Acting ] Mcjor Andrew Stevenson (lute Wood ! villa Rifles), ro be major Fifth (Rua- ! hine) Rifle Battalion. Resignations: I Lieutenant Walter J. Matthews, Haj wera Mounted Rifles; Oaptain Julian ' Ci. D ive, Hunterville Mounted Rifles j Promotions: Aeting-Majo- Edward ! NT. L. Okey (late Taranaki Rifles), to \ be major Fourth (Taranaki) Rifta Batj talion ; Lieutenant George Cock, V.0,, j Taranaki Rifles, to be pvy and quartirminter Fourth (Taranaki) Rifle Battilion, with the rank of captun. On Friday Gvening Colonel Webb, the officer commanding in th's district, met thi offiors of the corps comprising the Taranaki Bitallion at the Criterion Hotel. The following officers wero present : L : eut.-Oolonel Eliis, Major Okey, Surgeon-Major McOlelaid, Cap tain-Adjutant Taunton, Surgeon-Cap-tain Home, Cup'am Ook, Lieutenants Holmes and M^i3enter(Guard j ), Lieutenant Okey (R6V), ■. ap aiti Malorje . (Stratford), Ctptnin Loech (fnglewood), Oapi-ain Buddie, Lieutenants Carter and Page (Eltham), Oap'ain Gray, Lieutenants Dansey and Hillyard (Waitara). Tin co< fereon 1.-Med '"or about three hours, during whbh tune almost every subject connected with Volunteer administration was discussed, Colonel Webb having invited the officers ti biiog forward either complaints o:' suggestions. It was generally considered by all present that the moeting was of a most satisfactory nature and a step in the right direction. Such meetings do much to encourage officers in their efforts to promote the efficiency and welfare of th >ir companies. Amongst the matters decided on was a Battalion parade once a quarter, for which sanction was given. The first quaiterly parade after tho Easter camp i-s to bo hel I on Empire Day, when i' is proposid to concentratn one half the JBat alion at Stratford and the other a> Eltham. It is more than probable that a school cf instruction will b8 formed at New Plymouth at an early d ite.

Cdoiel Webb is evidently defirous of doing all he can for the Volunteers in his district, and hi prop: sus to visit the companies more frequently than his been done in the >ast.