VOLUNTEERING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81868, 18 October 1906, Page 2

VOLUNTEERING.

HEADQUARTER COMPANIES' INSPECTION. Colonel \\ ebb, Officer Commanding Wellington District Volunteers, inspected the headquarters companies on Wednesday. Staff officers on parade were Lieutenant-Colonel Okey, Major Malono, Captain-Adjutant Weston, Surgeon-Captain Homo, Staff Sergeant-Major Sanderson, and SetgcantMajor Armitage. The. ; Rifles, under Captain Okcy, Lieutenants Lover and liellringer, mustered 54 strong, and the Guards, 52 strong, tinder Captain Mills, Messenger and Boon. The Tara- ~ naki Garrison Band was in attendance. After inspection of arms and accoutrements by Colonel Webb, Hw

companies, headed by the band, marched to St. Aubyn street, whcrei 1 hey were put through battalion drilL Returning to the Drill Hall, Colonel Webb addressed the volunteers on parade expressing himself very \ve]E satisfied with the good niustcr, >ho slate of the "uniforms and that sort of thing. "It was impossible lo t I Q much in the streets on a dark night, but he was satisfied from what hehad been able to see that the New Plymouth companies were as good as anything else in his district, and ho would report accordingly. Colonel Webb stated that he was to have presented to Private Humphries thai night the gold medal presented by the Government to the best volunteer shot in the North Island. This was the second consecutive year that Private Humphries had won it. putting up the record score of ss ou t of a possible 56 in IQOS, ant) 53 o ut of s'; m 1906. This was excellent shooting, and the Cotone] expressed the hope that some of the other volunteers would emulate his deeds and t maintain Taranaki's reputation for £ rifts-shooting. K ' ... ■ , '-J

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