Mobilisation Exercise
' A test of mobilisation readiness and procedures will be made throughout the New Zealand Army next week-end. Known as “Round-up 1” the exercise will involve staff and communications at all headquarters down to unit level,! and it will also include key' elements of the Territorial! Force. It will begin on Sep-| tember 23 and end on Septem-1 ber 28. Although no actual troop! movement will take place, the ! Adjutant-General (Brigadier! A. H. Andrews) said in Wel-| lington that the exercise' would have the widest scope of any mobilisation exercise! since the Second World War.) The exercise, which will be I controlled from Army Head-! quarters, Wellington, is de-! signed to test the early stages : of mobilisation and will be I assessed by umpires through-' out all military districts. I The setting of “Exercise! Round-up I” will portray a situation in which New Zea-! land forces are required over ! seas to act in support of the Dominion’s treaty obligations in collective defence. It will be the second major mobilisation exercise t< be held in the country since 1960.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31169, 20 September 1966, Page 6
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179Mobilisation Exercise Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31169, 20 September 1966, Page 6
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