MANOEUVRES IN NORTH ISLAND
POSTPONEMENT BECAUSE OF RAIN
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, February 25. Large-scale exercises, involving all arms of a division of the New Zealand Forces, over a wide area of the central and western portions of the North. Island, have been postponed for a few weeks because of heavy rain, which has made the ground sodden. The decision to postpone the exercises, an Army authority says, has been made entirely in the interests of civilian property, and not because discomforts might have ensued for the soldiers engaged, who, he said, were prepared to fight in any weather the country could produce. They had spent months in careful planning and preparation, and had been well trained in the role they were to undertake. Consequently. they were disappointed at the postponement. As the exercises would involve the movement of tanks, tank transporters, trucks, and other heavy vehicles, the Army could have got through only at heavy cost to the roads.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23882, 26 February 1943, Page 5
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