P.W.D. EMPLOYEES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 21, 25 January 1940, Page 9

P.W.D. EMPLOYEES

SERVICE OVERSEAS

Officers and employees of the Public Works Department have been advised of the'details of the New Zealand Railway Survey, Construction, and Maintenance Company, for service overseas which the military authori- ■ ties have called on the Department to -drganise., According .to a general circular f signed by the Engineer-in-Chief and Urider-Secretary, Mr. J. Wood, the general conditions of enlistment, and service will be the same as for other units of the' Special Forced-age 21-35; physically fit * for service in any part of the world; preference to single men, but where these are not available married men with up to two children will be accepted. Applicants will be required to enter camp early in February and to proceed overseas after a short period of. training. ;.-.•■ Sixteen . commissioned officers (including a medical officer) are required, and the approximate number of other ranks, including non-commissioned officers, will be 371. The latter figure is made iip of: — Headquarters Section.—Sergeants, 2; corporals, 2; sappers, 12; medical officers' orderlies, 2; clerks, 3; draughtsmen (railway*construction), 2; batmen, 2; cook, 1; drivers 1.C., 3; motorcyclists, 5. Total, 34. Survey Section.—Company quarter-master-sergeant, 1; sergeants, 4; corporals, 7; sappers, 52. Total, 64. Railway Construction Company. — Company sergeant-major, 1; company quartermaster-sergeant, 1; sergeants, 8; corporals, 20; sappers, 235; first reinforcements, 8. Total, 273. The corporals and sappers of the railway construction company will include blacksmiths, bricklayers, carpen- > ters and joiners, clerks, draughtsmen (railway construction), drivers (transportation plant), fitter-drivers, fitters, fitters (railway signal), masons, painters and decorators, platelayers, plumbers and gasfitters, riggers, riveters, storemen (technical and. departmental railway), surveyors (railway), welders (acetylene and electric), engine hands, IC blacksmiths' strikers or hammermen stokers (stationary engine), cooks, fitters' mates, motor-cyclists, -drivers 1.C., batmen. 'Volunteers are to submit their applications to the officer-in-charge of the work on which they are employed. Officers-in-charge of works ' are forwarding applications to the District Engineer immediately they are received. The Army Department is arranging for enrolment and medical examination of volunteers after the applications'have' been;'considered in Wellington.