NATIONAL SERVICE
First Intake Marching Ont (N.Z. Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, Aug. 12. “How very wrong these people are who criticise the quality of the younger generation," the QuartermasterGeneral (Brigadier R. B. Dawson) told 500 20 and 21-year-old soldiers, armed and in battledress, at a marching out parade for the first intake of National Servicemen at Waiouru Military Camp today. The Brigadier, who is to go to Malaya shortly to command the 28th Commonwealth Brigade, told the servicemen that the way in which they had tackled their training over the last 14 weeks at Waiouru had exploded that view once again. Watching the parade were about 300 to 400 parents and friends. Included in the parade were 56 vehicles ranging from stripped-down utility vehicles, tractors and nine-ton recovery vehicles to M 45 tanks rumbling past.
After the complete rollpast of the vehicles, when the Brigadier took the salute in the company of Colonel W. R. K. Morrison, camp commandant at Waiouru, the servicemen were given a chance to meet their parents and friends. They will not return home, however, till August 15.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29900, 14 August 1962, Page 18
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