TO CAMP LATER

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 5, 5 July 1940, Page 9

TO CAMP LATER

WELLINGTON REGIMENT

TERRITORIAL TRAINING

When the Ist Battalion, Wellington Regiment (City of Wellington's Own), which is now in full-time training in Wellington, has completed two months of the three months' course, it will go into camp outside Wellington at a place yet to be selected. This will be done to enable the unit to carry out battalion training which cannot be done in the city. The battalion has now settled down to its regular training programme which is so far restricted to elementary instruction in squad and rifle drill, and so on.

For the hot tea which is being provided for the midday meal at the various parade grounds the men are to be charged sixpence a fortnight. The V.M.C.A. has opened a canteen at the headquarters building where a Wellington wing of the Central District School of Instruction has been established to conduct the special two months' course for officers and n.c.o.s of certain units from parts of the district outside Wellington. These trainees live in barrack accommodation at the headquarters building. Seventy-five per dent, of them are to be given leave on Saturday and Sunday afternoons and evenings.