UNLOADING OF SHIPS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 235, 5 October 1942, Page 4

UNLOADING OF SHIPS

SVFECT ON ARMY TRAINING

<0.0 WELLINGTON, Saturday. A number of factors which have had an unsettling effect on army training have been adjusted, and it is hoped that It will now be possible for training to proceed without interruption. In tne past few months, in the aggregate, considerable numbers of troops have been used in unloading ships and in shed work. Units have supplied these working parties more or less in turn. At its peak the practice resulted m several hundreds of soldiers being employed at the one time at port of Wellington, but it has now considerably diminished, and an arrangement having been made to secure civilian labour to deal with cargo from certain ships. This wharf work has been the subject of complaint from many soldiers whose viewpoint was that they went into the army to learn to fight, not to become labourers. It lias not been popular, either, with unit commanders, whose training schedules, in so far as they apply to the troops under their command as a whole, have been interrupted.