THE EASTER MANÆUVRES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 104, 23 April 1908, Page 2

THE EASTER MANÆUVRES.

'; TAK.WAKI INKANTKY'H THAT. '• IVrliap- I lie grcato-l feat uf (lie cam- ■ paign r~:iy> the New Zealand Times) >' «as I lie night march of nearly four hundred men of the Tavamiki and Maua- * iviilu mlantry battalions, under Lieut.1 Colonel "key. from the | )ast . ~t TaWl , Hat across country to the capture of - Many of (|,e me,, did not l»"k al all lit for such heavv work, and tl'>'.V had already undergone privations no less severe than would have fallen to ll'-i» m actual warfare. They had been under arm-, marching and tramping, since I o'clock on Sunday and weio withdrawn from their positions on Hi.' heights of Magce after a freezing "i.u it had fallen, to start out on an eight houiV tramp over some of the , roughest eountry in the province. Avoid mg (racks and roads, thev cut across between the Porirua and the Papnran"! roads, -killed the Xgahauranga" -r„r°o road in the adjacent hills, and then foil down a precipitous clill' into the roadway, along which they continued the march to the city. Thev were guided ''V Major Maloiie. chiet'-of-stali to (oh.nel Watt, commander of the Blue ioree. Arrived in the eilv, Uiey asj sembled in front of the. Post Office to cheer their capture, and then proceeded ' to the telephone bureau, which thev • seized by force, („ communicate with j the Jilues' headi[uartcrs. The feat is ] one which deserves even- credit, .-iuce ( Ihe men had sud'ered extreme privations ( lielore the march commenced. I:

In onler that the troops who have lakm jiiiTt in the held manoeuvres tliii l-:.i:ler lime :.|„.,iihl be paid oil' as s, li 3 posiiblc, the. District Defence Office inaugural,■,l a system uf acipiitlanc" rolls. I'.vcry lnau signed this roll in iickno.iedgmcnl of his claim for pav against the Defence Departinenl, and these rills are nmv completed and sent in to the District Office, 'the pay of Ihe vuriou- units will be forwarded to the officer commanding each corps eng.ised. and the fact that the receipts j >ver» signed before the money was re-cei.'-.'d wi'l prevent any disagreement,, dispute, or delay.