MEN IN CAMPS
RELEASE ON DECEMBER 28.
ANNOUNCEMENT BY MINISTER.
AVOIDING SHORT TRAINING
(Per Press Association)
WELLINGTON, This Day
All troops now in camp will disperse on December 28, according to a statement by the Minister of Defence (the Hon. F. Jones) in reply to a point raised by a correspondent in a letter to the editor of a Wellington paper. This, the Minister points out, will allow the men to reach their homes for the us.ial family reunions that take place during Christmas and New Year seasons. "
The Minister pointed out that units of the Territorial Force now under training in camp were called up- for three months from October 1 and therefore should remain in camp until December 31. If they were released from camps before Christmas the training period would be foreshortened and this would adversely affect the progressive training programme which culminates in brigade training. However, it has now been decided that all troops will disperse from the camps on December 28,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 45, 3 December 1940, Page 6
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