The New Zealand Garrison Artillery Volunteers . There are five Garrison Artillery Corps in the North Island and five in the South Island, comprising in all a total of fifty officers and 917 rank and file. They go into camp annually for sixteen days. No. 1 Company is located at Auckland, No. 2 Company at Dunedin, No. 3 Company at Port Chalmers, No. 4 Company at Wellington, No. 5 Company at Lyttelton, No. 6 Company at Petone, No. 7 Company at Lyttelton, No. 8 Company at Ponsonby, No. 9 Company at Devonport, and No. 10 Company at Westport.

Lieutenant-Colonel James Allen , who commands the Dunedin Division of the New Zealand Artillery Volunteers, received his first military experience at Home. In 1891 he was appointed to the command of the Dunedin Naval Artillery Volunteers, and a few years later became major. He was promoted to his prsent rank in December, 1902, and shortly afterwards, on the establishment of the New Zealand Garrison Artillery Volunteers, he was given command of the Dunedin division. Lieutenant-Colonel Allen is more fully referred to in another section of this volume as member for Bruce in the House of Representatives.

Captain And Adjutant William James Strong , Divisional Staff, New Zealand Garrison Artillery Volunteers, first joined the North Dunedin School Cadets in 1876, and the High School Cadets in 1881. He belonged to the Dunedin Navals for two years and a half, but resigned in 1886, and removed to Cromwell, where he joined the Cromwell Rifles, and rose to the rank of lieutenant before the disbandment of the corps in 1890. In 1891 he returned to Dunedin, where he joined the Dunedin Navals in 1893 with the rank of lieutenant, and in 1902 became Captain and Adjutant of the Dunedin Division of the New Zealand Garrison Artillery Volunteers. Captain Strong had charge of the Garrison Artillery section of the New Zealand Contingent present at the opening of the Commonwealth Parliament. As a Freemason he is a Past Master of Lodge St. John Kilwinning, 682, Scottish Constitution.

Wrigglesworth and Binns, photo.
Capt.-Adjt. W. J. Strong.