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NO COLLECTIVE TRAINING SERVICE CONDITIONS DISTRICT EXERCISES (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. A proposal to concentrate the first section of' the Special Military Force at Wg'iouru, at a tented camp on the slopes of,Mount Ruapehu, 16 miles north of Taihape, is being cancelled. District camps for active service training are to be held on sites yet to be selected. “It was originally intended that towards the end of the training period all units would proceed to Waioru for collective training,” said Colonel F. F. H. Bell,, officer commanding the southern command, to-day. “It has now been decided that advanced training will be carried out in districts.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20067, 13 October 1939, Page 9
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