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separately in laying and practical work, and power of instruction, some 
idea of the Volunteer Adjutant's work, in this matter alone, can be 
formed. 
Pot-liunting is greatly to be discredited in the Volunteers, but all 
Volunteers who do well are by no means pot-hunters. I remember 
One Sergeant, and from what follows I think every R.A. officer who 
reads of him will wish he had him in his own battery. Pie could not 
attend drill as often as some men, but in the examination for skill-at- 
arms, carried out as in R.A. R.O./90, he made full marks in giving 
practical instruction, he could drill a squad of recruits on the guns or 
in carbine drill, or setting up drill as well as a good R.A. Sergeant, 
with a good word of command; and some weeks afterwards, in prac¬ 
tice camp, he scored full marks in good time, in the competition for 
the Colonel's cup, and won the prize. Needless to say, we brought 
him to the notice of the Inspecting Officer. By trade he was a foreman 
painter in a ship yard. He was a big made, swarthy man, who could 
sing a good song in grand style, quite a typical R.A. Sergt.-Major, 
but alas only a Volunteer. Unfortunately we, as a corps, could not 
claim the credit of training him, as he was Sergeant in another Volun¬ 
teer Artillery corps, before coming to our neighbourhood and joining 
ours. 
The Adjutant must also do all he can to make the drill and training 
of interest to men of varied callings and abilities; for men skilled in 
civil employments may be taught to turn their knowledge to great 
account for the good of the service. Thus, signallers are easily obtained 
from telegraph boys and men, and other postal and railway officials 
who join the corps and take a keen interest in army signalling; so 
much so that a good suggestion was made by one of them—to obtain 
old telegraph instruments from railway or post office officials and use 
them by attaching them to the spare wires (which always exist on the 
telegraph lines, for use in case of break downs) on the different tele¬ 
graph lines in the district, and so communicate to different detachments 
and batteries near the same line. Flag* and lamp signalling may be 
practised by day and night in the armoury grounds, or at long distances 
from steeples in town to the country, and cycling excursions with such 
objects, afford much relief to ordinary drill. Men, such as architects, 
surveyors, painters and clerks, can readily be taught to read an 
ordnance map or military sketch map, and to make military sketches 
of parts of the surrounding country. Those men who have much 
leisure and make military work their hobby, can be instructed in field 
fortification or reconnaissance work, or gunnery. Members who are 
workers in metals or jewellers will be greatly interested in making any 
instruments for range-finding, clinometers, dials, or anything for 
gunnery purposes which may be useful or experimental, or such as are 
not supplied by Government. I have seen good practice carried out 
with the aid of a clinometer and pointing rods, over a high bank, at a 
target 3000 yards away and invisible from the guns, the clinometer 
being made from my rough sketch and description, by a jeweller in the 
corps. 
The Volunteer Batteries of Position are now harnessed with R.A. 
