WOMEN TRAINEES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 13, 16 January 1940, Page 3

WOMEN TRAINEES.

NATIONAL EMERGENCY.

Approximately 120 young New Zealand women to-day went into camp under canvas at Tauherenikau racecourse for a short period of training for services of National Emergency. The camp was originally planned to celebrate the Dominion's Centenary, and arrang?nients were well in hand to give 000 Dominion and overseas guides an unforgettable holiday, when war was declared. Since then the camp has be?n reorganised on a more war-minded basis, with a view to training the older guides and leaders of companies in services which will be useful to their country as well as to themselves, should they ever be called upon to play a more active part in serving their country* in time of war. In England the guide, training has proved a ready passport into any field of work. To everyone of the Women's Auxiliary Services, Red Cross and A.R.P. recruits who have had guide training are welcomed for their efficiency, adaptability and sense of discipline. Visitors' Day at the Tauherenikau camp will be Sunday, January 21, and a trip to the exhibition has been planned.