THE WAIKATO REGIMENT

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4814, 24 July 1939, Page 5

THE WAIKATO REGIMENT

RECRUITING CAMPAIGN. COMMENCING THIS MORNING. OPENING OF BOOTH. The Recruiting Week, which has as its object the bringing of the Te Kuiti quota of the Waikato Regiment up to full strength, commenced this morning. A recruiting booth has been open in Mr. Hogans’ old shop next the Post Office.

Intending recruits should enrol there at the earliest moment. There has already been an excellent response from the country districts — Pio Pio 47, Te Anga 36. It is now up to Te Kuiti. The nominal roll of Territorials, Te Kuiti Training Centre, is as follows :

On strength Support Company, Waikato Regiment, as at Ist May, 1939: —Major E. M. Mackersey, Lieut. E. J. R. Tong,-Coy-Sergt.-Major G. Holden, Sgts. R. P. Emery, E. Sanders, A. D. Stretch, T. P. Stubbs; Corpoi’al J. M. Warriner; LanceCorporals J. R. Ormsby, M. M. Ormsby; Privates R. E. Allingham, F. R. Brown, P. Burns, R. M. Darvell, N. B. Johnson, R. Tane, N. J. White. Enrolments since Ist May, 1939: Privates W. Andrews, E. Arnold, C. A. Banfield, E. H. Beable, T. E. Bentley, N. Board, D. Brown, C. F. Cantell, C. L. Cato, C. W. Corin, N. Delaney, J. T. H. Dowdall, K. G. McK. Ewington, D. P. Farrell, K. J. Graham, W. Grant, A. W. Heron, C. LeG. Jacob, G. McK. Jerome, D. K. Jones, S. H. Knight, G. A. Knox, P. C. Lee, C. K. Matthews, D. Miller, R. A. Pettigrew, H. G. Pool, H. R. A. Reilly, H. M. Richards, E. W. Ritchie, R. Robert, F. F. Rutherfurd, J. R. E. Seccombe, T. W. Shearer, A. R. Stewart, A. W. Tapp, A. V. Thomas, T. G. Teesdale, R. Watson, W. H. R. White, A. White, S. Williamson, D. Cameron, A. Davey, E. B. Ellis, K. McLeod, N. A. Robinson, K. W. Shearer, H. R. Tressler, W. J. Kitto.

The names of all further enrolments will be published in these columns.