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NEW ZEALANDERS IN BRITAIN.
PREPARING WINTER PROGRAMME
(From the Official War Correspondent with the LN.Z.E.F. in Britain). ENGLAND, November G.
After two months in the field as part of Britain’s forward defence the New Zealanders .have been withdrawn inland for rest and refitting. All are living either in requisitioned empty houses or specially-built Nissen huts. The great majority! are in houses, many of which arc first-class homes. A few days are being allowed for settling in and making the premises comfortable. Whereafter first attention will be given to clothing and equipment and to completion or leave. Every man’s battle dress will be professionally cleaned without charge to him. The granting of seven days’ leave to 10 per cent, of the strength: weekly was interrupted by tho move to the coast at the beginning of September. Within the next few weeks, before winter begins in earnest, all the men who have not had this leave will got it. Tho winter training programme is necessarily more restricted than that followed during tho summer. Nevertheless there will he plenty to keep tho men’s minds occupied and their bodies fit—for a start they will return to the parado ground to brush up their drill and generally smarten the appearances, which were of secondary importance in the invasion belt. Thereafter weapon training, route marches, and organised games will bo the mainstays of the working day. In evening every unit will have the use of a well-heated and well-lighted room for reading, writing and indoor recreation. Regular entertainment will be organised. Men wishing for something a little more serious are offered facilities for free attendance .at technical, commercial, language and art classes at civ-? ilian technical colleges and evening institutes.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 24, 8 November 1940, Page 5
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