TRAINING AT TRENTHAM.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 February 1917, Page 8

TRAINING AT TRENTHAM.

SOME SEVERE TESTS. The new course of training introduced it Trentham takes the form of putting reinforcements over a specially designed obstacle course. The course presents eight different obstacles, placed at regular intervals of 25 yards. These, in their numerical order, may be described as follows: 1. A 2ft. jump over a wooden trestle 2 ft. high. \ •2. A sand.bag wall sft. high by 3ft. across. 3. A wooden wall, closely boarded, Oft. i Oin. liigh, with no possible grip anywhere except the top beam, which measurc-s about 3in. across. 4. A water jump oft. across (this is a dug ditch at present). 5. A trench Sit. wide with a parapet '2ft. 6in. high on, the far side. 7. Posts and rails 7ft. ''igh. 8. Single planks S>in. wide erected in rows of posts 4ft. Oin. high and presented end on to the approaching soldier, who is obliged to cross them at a run, mounting by means of a sloping plank of the same width, which is specially provided. Tiie most difficult one is the third, which requires both strength and agility to get over it. The fifth represents a Sfi. wide jump on to the ground 4ft. higher on the other side; the sixth is a trickster, inasmuch as the sft.-wido trench below is cone'ealed from view until the mail is almost o.i top of the parapet and has to jump; the last requires nerve in balancing, especially after having negotiated the nrwe:l''-~ at a running pace, the 7tli of which i 3 7it. high. , I