ON WAR FOOTING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 284, 29 November 1940, Page 8

ON WAR FOOTING.

WEEK'S EXERCISES. BRIGADE AT CLEVEDON. Hounding off a highly-successful |>criod of iuten-ive training, three Auckland regiments will engage in a week's tactical manoeuvres on a brigade basis in the Pa pakura-Clevedon area next month. 'I lie operations will he on a lull war >ealc an.l every effort is I»t-i 11 ir made by the military authorities to make the training as realistic and near to war conditions as |xk>sihle. It is anticipated that valuable work will be done. The arrangement cancels the previous one in which the troops were to assemble for training at Papakura mobilisation camp. The units involved are the North Auckland Regiment, now at Ngaruawahia, the Wa'ikato Regiment. at Cambridge, and the Hauraki Regiment. at Te Aroha. The tentative date fixed for the manoeuvres is the second week in December, and Lieuten-ant-Colonel (,'. S. Whyte will be in charge of the operations. The troops will bivouac for the week in the open and will return to their present camps for Christmas. There they will continue their training until Decern l>er :!(>, when they will return to their headquarters and be <lemobilised. From the camps they are now occupvill ir the troops will move to the concentration area by road, using their own transport and carrying out tactical training en route. The week's brigade training will consist of large-scale exercises involving moves and night operations, and d'.ring this period the brigade will be 011 a full war footing.

When she fell from a swing at lier home yesterday afternoon. Freda Joyce .Rider, asred seven, daughter of Mrs. Ada Uider, of Edinburgh Street. Pukekohe. suffered a 'broken arm. The injured child was admitted to tLe Auckland Hospital.