RAILWAY COMPANY
P.B. SELECTIONS DEPARTURE MONDAY TRAINING AT BURNHAM Twelve men experienced in railway construction and maintenance have been selected from the enlistments in this district for service overseas with the New Zealand Railway Survey, Construction and Maintenance Company. They will leave early next week for Burnham camp, Christchurch, where the company is to be mustered and trained preparatory to going abroad. Gisborne men of the draft will be dispatched at 4 p.m. on Monday, February 12, and will be joined the following morning by those selected from the Wairoa area, the draft proceeding by the 5.35 a.m. railcar from Wairoa to Napier. The draft is as under: — Wright, Norman Thomas, single, 24 years, Kopuawhara, carpenter. Fuller, Frederick Stanley, single, 29 years, Gisborne, driver Osborne, Alfred Ernest, married, 26 years, Tikiwhata tunneller. Allan, Robert, single, 25 years, Makaraka, driver. Parsons, Thomas William, married, 43 years, Gisborne, blacksmith. Neale, John Jellicoe Jutland, single, 22 years, Wairoa, welder Masters, Norman Leonard, single, 30 years, Waikaremoana, surveyor. Murray, Kenneth George, single, 31 years, Waikaremoana, time keeper. Ogilvy, Archie Leslie, married, 42 years, Tuai, overseer. Crarer, Hector MacDonald Tapuwae, single, 34 years, Tuai, compressor attendant. Lawton, David Michael, single. 30 years, Paritu, fitter. Woodley, Daniel John, single. 23 years, Kopuawhara, tunneller.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20164, 6 February 1940, Page 6
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207RAILWAY COMPANY Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20164, 6 February 1940, Page 6
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