LYTTELTON VOLUNTEERS.
Lieutenant-Colonel Cooper, officer commanding the Lyttelton defence forces, explained to a reporter some proposals he lias made in regard to' mobilising the Garrison Artillery Corps at Lyttelton. It -was his intention, to carry out a mobilisation scheme in Lyttelton next •month. With the permission of the Harbor Board and Mayor of the town lie intended to have three rockets fired off at the end of the wharves one night as a signal, and he hoped to be able to give prizes to the first twenty men of the first corps which (arrived in the drillshed, which was an alarm post in case of war. The men would be fully equipped with arms, side arms, blankets, -haversacks, rations for one meal, and so on. Afterwards he would take the men for a route march.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2519, 4 June 1909, Page 4
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135LYTTELTON VOLUNTEERS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2519, 4 June 1909, Page 4
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