NEW ZEALAND FORCES.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 December 1915, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND FORCES.

A NEW CAMP ARRANGEMENT?! By Telegraph.—Press Association. (Wellington, Dec. 27 With the opening of the new perman> ent camp at Featherston, shortly, after the middle of next month, if hag been decided to rearrange the grouping of the various units in training, and the Artillery, Engineers, and Infantry of each reinforcement, commencing with the Twelfths, will be mobilUed at Trentham. The Artillery and Engineer*. : will remain at Trcnthatn during their whole course of training, while the In« \ fantry, at.the end of their sixth week; after completing their recruiting course in musketry, will be transferred to Featherston. returning to Trentham at the end of their fourteenth week to fire their trained soldiers' course and complete their outfit, etc. Trentham will thus become purely a camp for Artillery, Engineers and Infantry.

The Mounted Rifles, Army Service Corps, and Veterinary Corp»'for etch draft will be mobilised at T'eajuerstnn, . and will be stationed there permanently, not transferring to Trentham. Rescrvi-a will also be stationed permanently, at Featherston. The Medical Corps' -will ' mobilise at Awapuni (Pftlmertton N'.i, where a permanent Medical Corp» camp will be run in tw6 model camps. U Trentham and Featlieriton men .for reinforcement drafts will be provided with really comfortable quarters, but it lias been decided, in order 'to harden and accustom them to camp life, to give every man a full four weeks under «nii» vas. ' i