CAMP CLOSED

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 271, 11 August 1943, Page 6

CAMP CLOSED

Remedial Training Of Recruits (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, August 10. One of the effects of the recently announced reorganization of the army has been the closing of the remedial training camp at a well-known provincial tourist resort. Some members of the staff have been demobilized and others have gone to other appointments. The camp, which is established on a racecourse, will be used for a new military purpose. Lieutenant-Colonel J. IT. H. Wood, N.Z.M.C.. who commanded the camp for most of the time in which it was in use as a remedial training centre, has gone overseas and is undertaking duties of a similar nature there. His successor, Lieutenant-Colonel A. G. Couston, N.Z.M.C., has been posted to Northern Military District Headquarters and will be stationed in Auckland for medical duties. The camp grew out of an experiment started v in 1940 with recruits in training at Papakura. As the experiment developed and proved its value n separate establishment was set up at the beginning of last year and since then .hundreds of men who had been medically graded II because of disabilities had received training and remedial treatment designed to bring them up to expeditionary force standard or at least to make them completely fit for home defence duties.