CADETS IN CAMP.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 300, 15 December 1908, Page 4

CADETS IN CAMP.

Cadets to the number of about —o hundred, under Major Santlford and; Quartermaster-Captain Bary, marched through the town to the site of their camp on the Hospital road yesterday morning. The boys have gone into the affair with great zest, and with a line camping ground, every prospect of fine weather, excellent tent accommodation and commissariat arrangements, there is no reason to doubt that the camp will be all that it is intended to be., Major Sandford is an old volunteer ofli eel*, with considerable experience camping, besides which he lias frequently had charge of the school cadet 'encampments in Canterbury. Jle has an idea, then, of what bovs can do, and how to induce them to do it. His staff coinprises Captain 0. Johnston, adjutant, and Captain E. Bary, Quartermaster: j and the other officers in charge of fiie | companies are Captains MeUroy and Fenton, with Lieutenants Evetts. Day, Whitcombe and Bayly. The cadets are accommodated in twenty-one bell tents, exclusive of the officers' mess and the large social marquee for evening recreation. Yesterday Staff-Sergt.-Major Sanderson, who volunteered his services as instructor, was in camp giving the cadets instruction in tent-pitching, and to-day liis lesson will he upon mounting guard. Apart from the squads engaged at the tents, there were others at work in throwing a temporary bridge across the Henui/strcam to provide i short cut to town. Others were performing different duties, all part, of the life of a soldier. And the cadets off duty cooled 'themselves in the river. The new rifle range adjoining the camp will probably be ready for use to-dav.