NEW COMMAND AND STAFF SCHOOL

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 303, 19 September 1941, Page 6

NEW COMMAND AND STAFF SCHOOL

Officers From Overseas

COMMANDANT AND SENIOR STAFF ARRIVE

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, September IS.

A party of officers who will form the senior staff of the new command and staff school, which is to be established at Waiouru as part of the general reorganization of the Dominion’s land forces, has arrived at Auckland. They will take up their new duties very shortly. On loan from the War Office as commandant of the school is Colonel V. F. S. Hawkins, M.C., an Imperial stall officer. Other members of the party are four senior officers of the New Zealand Staff Corps, Majors J. I. Brooke, J. Brooke-White, A. R. Cockerell, D. 5.0., and F. L. H. Davis and Major A. L. Hogg, New Zealand Artillery. Major Brooke-White is an engineer staff officer.

The purpose of tiie command and staff school, it was recently stated by the Minister of Defence, Mr. Jones, is to provide officers in New Zealand with higher training in modern methods of warfare. Senior staff officers brought back from the Expeditionary Force as instructors have all had experience of recent fighting. Tue school is being established as a result of recommendations made by the military adviser to the Government, General Sir Guy Williams, as is the armoured fighting vehicle school, which will also be located at Waiouru.