Military Encampments at Easter

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7756, 7 March 1905, Page 2

Military Encampments at Easter

A SUITABLE LOCAL SITE TO BE tIIiGED. The Defence Department has decided that there are to be two encampments in the Wellington Volunteer District during Easter week, one for the East Coast icarps and the other for the West Coast companies. Arrangements arc to be made for a sham fight in each dis-* trict. The selection of sites has been left to the officers commanding the battalions, and in this connection the claims of this district for ono of the sites ate to be represented to hcad(Jiiartera. Lieut .-Colonel WTatts. who will be one of the officers commanding, has within the lpst day or two communicated with a local officer, asking jf there is. any site around this centrie tha.t woiilkl mhko afcood ckmpjng ground both for infantry and cavalry. The officer So whom the querv was addressed showed a lack of knowledge of thtf district by replying in the negative, and Iho Mayor (Mr It. Cock) has taken the matter up. Any person acquainted with , the country around the borough is , well aware that there are any ; amount of admirable sites nvallnblo lor the purpose, and that it would j boliard to excel the locality between | jOninta and 801 l Block as a mWtary , j rendezvous. In addition, the position and accessibility of New l'ly- , mouth as; thp railway terminus is | an argument in its favour. It is to jbo trusted that the matter will bo strongly represented to the authorities, and that New riymouth will I have ihe pleasure of welcoming ihe visiting forces at E»etcr t