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APPENDIX E— continued. Return of Musketry Practice of the Forces for the Year, 1913-14— continued.

Summary.

APPENDIX F. PRELIMINABY REPORT OX THE ANNUAL CAMPS AND INSPECTIONS OF THE INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF IHE OVERSEA FORCES. To the Hon. the Minister of Defence. What are probably the most important camps ever held in New Zealand have now concluded. For the first time in the history of the Citizen Army all the troops in each district with the exception of the Garrison Artillery, which camped separately, have been assembled in one camp, and have thus been enabled to can \ oui operations in which Horse, Foot, and Artillery were combined. The camps derived a very great added importance from the fact that the work done at them was seen by the Inspector-General of the Oversea Forces (General Sir lan Hamilton), and that upon his impressions of them the report which he is to render to the Imperial Government and to the Dominion Government will be Largely based. In Canterbury the troops of the Nelson and Marlborough Provinces, which with the Canterbury and West land Provinces form the Canterbury .Military District, were camped separately from the remaining troops of the district, but in every other case there was one central cam]) for each district. In each case those who were unable to attend the first camp attended the casual camp held immediately afterwards on the same ground. The Inspector-General spent two days at the camp of the Otago District troops, held at Mataiae, and saw 3,581 of all ranks at work. On the first day the troops were engaged by units in practising the attack, and on the second day the whole forces combined in field operations against a skeleton enemy. The next camp visited was that of the Canterbury and Westland troops, held at Eowai, when '2,!1!U men were under canvas. It was intended that field operations should be carried out here, but the state of the ground unfortunately rendered this inadvisable. The Inspector-Genera] reviewed the troops in camp, and also made them carry out some small tactical problems,

Unit. Completed. Partially completed. Not exercised. Wellington Military District. No. 5 Area Group Cadet3 .. .. .. I 39-00 No. 6 Area Group Cadets .. .. .. 30-25 No. 7 Area Group Cadets .. .. .. 59-00 No. 7a Area Group Cadets .. .. .. 58-36 No. 8 Area Group Cadets . . . . . . 69-07 2nd (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles .. 89-30 6th (Manawatu) Mounted Rifles .. .. .. 98-80 9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles .. 87-80 Mounted Signal Troop .. .. . . .. 100-00 F Battery, N.Z. Field Artillery . . . . .. 99-08 J Battery, N.Z. Field Artillery . . . . . . 93-44 5th (Wellington) Regiment . . . . .. 25-22 Wellington Garrison Artillery Division . . . . 90-00 D (M >untain) Battery . . .. .. .. 100-00 7th (Wellington West Coast) Regiment .. .. 95-90 9th (Hawke's Bay) Regiment . . .. .. 87-60 11th Regiment, Taranaki Rifles .. .. .. 88-74 17th (Ruahine) Regiment .. .. .. 84-00 Divisional Signal Company .. .. .. 100-00 No. 4 Company, Field Engineers .. .. 42-00 •19-00 41-50 22-00 24-00 3-98 1-50 38-50 5-00 12-00 28-25 19-00 17-64 26-95 10-70 1-20 10-70 0-92 6-56 36-28 5-00 1-00 6-40 2-67 4-00 3-10 6-00 8-59 12-00 58-00

District. Completed. Partially completed. Not exercised. Auckland— Territorials Senior Cadets Canterbury— Territorials Senior Cadets •• i 58-00 68-00 78-36 57-70 13-00 11-00 29-00 21-00 3-60 14-80 17-90 27-90 Otago— Territorials Senior Cadets Wellington— Territorials Senior Cadets • • 84-70 65-50 85-40 51-10 2-70 6-50 12-00 28-00 13-20 28-00 13-20 20-00