NEW BALLOT RESULTS

Grey River Argus, 5 March 1937, Page 9

NEW BALLOT RESULTS

N.Z. CONTINGENT For the Coronation (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, March 4. Eight names of persons chosen, by ballot, for the Coronation Contingent to replace those who, for medica reasons, were withdrawn’from the Contingent, were announced to-night, following the final medical examination. There were seven rejections, and since then another change. This one is in the Permanent Staff representation, and has) been made for medical reasons. Those who enjoyed the luck of the ballot are: — RI.S.A. Representatives. F. J. Twiss (Wellington), accountant in the Mental Hospitals Department, who served in the Light Trencn Mortar Battery. Robert Lepper (Invercargill), who servedi with the Ist Battalion of New Zealand Rifle Brigade, and was awarded the D.C.M. E. T. Tirikatene, M.P. (Southern Maori), who went overseas with the 2nd Maori Contingent, and served with the New Zealand Pioneer Bat talion. Territorials. G. A. Parsons (Rangiora), of the Ist Battalion Canterbury Regiment. H. Blythe (Paeroa), of the Ist Battalion Hauraki Regiment. H. P. Davis (Auckland), of the Northern Depot, Army Service Corps. Permanent Staff. Staff Sergeant-Major L. R. Stichbury, of the New Zealand permanent Staff, Gisborne. Nursing Division. Miss Maud Mitchell, A.R.R.C. (Titahi Bay). Most of these new additions, together jvith the remaining members of the Contingent of 50, are in Trentham Camp. The Contingent sails in the Rangitiki from Wellington at 3 p.m. on March 13.