HOME GUARD

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 157, 19 September 1941, Page 5

HOME GUARD

REORGANISATION PROCEEDING

SUBJECT TO MILITARY LAW

The Home Guard will be reorganised into two divisions—Division 1 and Division 2—but both Divisions will undergo exactly the same training and Division. 2 is to be formed into platoons and absorbed into the various Companies and will act as a reserve to Division 1, and all vacancies occurring in Division 1 for various reasons Avhich are bound to occur from time to time will be filled from the effectives in Division 2.

Another point to be made clear is that the personnel of both Division 1 and 2 are all combatants andj that there will be no non-com-batants in the Guard, except, of course, the Medical Platoon. .

By Order in. Council the Home Guard has been divorced from the Emergency Resercve Corps and is now controlled and administered as part of the land forces in New Zealand, and all enrolled members will be subject to military law as a soldier in accordance with the New Zealand -Defence Act and Regulations, and he is liable to obey such orders as may be given to him in accordance with the instructions issued by the Army Board.

The classification of the Guard in this Group is now being carried out which will mean that a member through age or being medically unlit will be given his discharge from the Guard and no man who has attested in the Home Guard can be released for any reason whatsoever without an application from his Company Commander, and receives the sanction of the G..0. of his Battalion.