RETIRED OFFICERS
HELP APPRECIATED
TERRITORIAL TRAINING
! Appreciation 'of, the. action of many retired officers in. coming back to sist in the. training of Territorial units was expressed today by Colonel R. A. Row, D.5.0., Officer Commanding The Central Military District, in an interview with "The Post" today- The colonel said ' that' when he ■ visited Waiouru on Thursday where several units have, held" th^eir annual, cafjips this week a number of;. retired officers were present and sortie- of them had attended only at great personal inconvenience to- themselves. Theii action had greatly assisted the training and had madelup for the' loss of experienced Territorial officers who had en listed with" the Expeditionary Force.
The-units in camp at-Waiouru chis week included the Ist Battalion of thi Hawke's Bay Regiment, under Colonel J. H... Irving,-the Ist Bajtaliqn,; of tfte Tarariaki Regiment, under Lieut.-Col-Oriei J. H. Jardine, and the 2nd Field Company/ NJZ. Engineers. ."'■'The'-engi-neers did particularly good work-there, including the erection of a tubular scaffold bridge over the . Waitarigi River. ■ " '■■• • • '■'■ '• ■ • "■ -'-;:-":' :
Colonel J;: L. Saunders, D.S:O., Officer Commandinf-'the: 2nd Infantry Brigade, was. at Waiouru during the week.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 59, 9 March 1940, Page 15
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