THIRD ECHELON

Evening Star, Issue 23512, 28 February 1940, Page 8

THIRD ECHELON

LATEST REGISTRATIONS ONLY SIX SINCE YESTERDAY The latest list of applications for enlistment with tho third echelon of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force comprises only six names, five single men, and one married man. These names are:— GROUP 2, —Single Men.— Arthur Edward Clark, Frederick Boyd. Mervyn Wallace Cross. , William Robert Campbell. James Eccles Alexander Crawford. GROUP 4. —Married Men Without Children.— Timothy Flynn. AIR BOARD The board appointed by New Zealand Royal Air Force Headquarters, Wellington, to interview candidate for positions of pilots, observers, and gunners, completed its Dunedin ‘ sitting this morning, 179 applicants having been interviewed since Monday. The board goes to Invercargill to-morrow morning, and will remain there until Friday. The whole of next week and three days of the following week will be spent in Christchurch, this completing the South Island tour. The same board will sit again in Dunedin in approximately three months’ time. NO. 7 AREA FIRST TO Fill QUOTA [Peb United Press Association.] MASTERTON. February 28. *‘ This area was the first in New Zealand to fill its quota for the second echelon of the N.Z.E.F., and in addition, provided a large number of additional men to fill the shortage in tho quotas from other areas,” stated Captain C. J. Williams, of Napier, the No. 7 (Waiarapa-Hawke’s Bay-Gis-borne) area officer, in a statement yesterday. “ The quota for the third echelon is more than full, but additional enlistments are still being taken,” he added. Captain Williams stated that in his opinion the response had been magnificent. The response to appeals for recruits for the Maori Battalion and tho Home Service Units was also most gratifying. The enlistment rate was still being maintained at a high level, and a large proportion of men had been medically examined and passed ns fit. Registrations for service in the area up to February 24 totalled 2,615, of whom 1,759 were fit and 82 temporarily unfit, with 354 still to be examined. Men despatched to camp totalled 1,079. and the balance available for the third echelon was 293.