FINAL BALLOT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 54, 5 March 1937, Page 8

FINAL BALLOT.

CORONATION TROOP.

EIGHT VACANCIES FILLED.

TRIP FOR MAORI M.P.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) VV!•:LLIN*<;TON, Th u r sdav

The names of eight persons chosen by ballot for the Coronation contingent to replace those who for medical reasons were withdrawn from the contingent

were announced to-night following a final medical examination. There were seven rejections, and since then another change, this one in the Permanent Staff representation, ha*> been made for medical reasons.

The representatives of the Returned Soldiers' Association who enjoyed the luck of the ballot are: —

Mr. F. J. Twigs (Wellington), accountant in the Mental Hospitals Department, who served in a lifrht trench mortar batterv.

Mr. Robert Lepper (Invercargill), who served with the Ist Battalion, New Zealand Rifle Brigade, and was awarded the D.C.M.

Mr. K. T. Tirikatene, M.P. for Southern Maori, who went overseas with the 2nd Maori Contingent and served with the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion. The territorials successful in the ballot were: —- Mr. C. A. Parsons (Rangiora), of the Ist Battalion, Canterbury Regiment. Mr. H. Blythe (Paeroa), of the Ist Battalion, Hauraki Regiment. Mr: H. F. Davis (Auckland), of the Northern Depot, New Zealand Army Service Corps. The new Permanent Staff representative is Staff-Sergeant-Major L. R. Stiehbury, of Cisborne. J lie additional representative of the Nursing Division is Mis* Maud Mitchell, A.IJ.K.C. (Titahi Bay). Most of these new members. 1 ofjotlier with the remaining meml>ers of the contingent of .">O. are in Trent ham Camp. The contingent will sail in the Rangitiki from Wellington at .1 p.m. on March 13.