N.C.O. TRAINING

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20273, 14 June 1940, Page 4

N.C.O. TRAINING

MEN FOR TRENTHAM FOURTH ECHELON RANK DEPARTURE TO-MORROW Men selected for advance training with a view to their qualifying for non-commissioned rank in the Fourth Echelon are to go into camp at Trentham to-morrow, and will enter the central district training school immediately. The Gisborne selections will leave at 2 a.m., and will travel to Trentham in the one day. Of a total of 42 men chosen from the whole of the No. 7 military area, which includes Napier, Hastings, Waipukurau, Dannevirke. Woodville and Masterlon, a contribution of 23 has been levied on Gisborne, the Coast and Wairoa. The last-named town is especially well represented, and will send a good party of partially-trained N.C.O.s from the Wairoa troop of the East Coast Mounted Rifles. Gisborne and East Coast men are:— Beets, G. R., Gisborne. Dodge, B, H., Gisborne. Gaddum, F. J.. Waingake. Kemp, B. G„ Rere. Lysnar, W. H., Gisborne. Murray, J. R'., Gisborne. Murphy, P. M., Panikau. Robb, R. G., Gisborne. Reynolds, R. J. M., Ormond. Seton. J. G., Gisborne. Willock, P. R., Gisborne. Wilson, A. C., Gisborne. Anderson, J., Gisborne. Eddy, J., Tokomaru Bay. Sealy, R. M., Gisborne. Mitchell, W. A., Tolaga Bay. McAneney, I. A., Gisborne. Men from Wairoa, who will join the draft at the Wairoa railway station to-morrow morning, comprise:— Benton, G. H., Wairoa. Hutchinson, E. Y. M„ Wairoa. Jonos, S. H., Wairoa. deLautour, P. A., Wairoa. Glendining, R. 11., Wairoa. Hodgson, J." C„ Wairoa.

Gisborne members of the draft will assemble at the Abercorn Hall at 1 a.m. to-morrow, and will leave at 2 a.m., after a check of the personnel and a brief farewell function,