CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR LEAVE.
FOR MEN IN TRAINING CAMPS. (Special to “Standard.”) WELLINGTON, Nov. 8. It is announced that no reinforcement draft will be taken into camp ncx month. The Defence authorities want to have the training camps as nearly empty as possible during the bohdajs, in order that the starts may a iest and that the huts and tents nay he thoroughly disinfected, iho men who have been set down lor the Decembci draft will enter camp in January Christmas and New Year leave w. he granted to practically all the me in the training camps. Ihe leave will begin about December 19, and the men wifi bo due bo return about January o. Experience has shown that no good purpose is served by keeping recruits m camp during the Christmas and New Year holidays, when nobody wants to work, and when family calls are insistent. .
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1017, 9 November 1917, Page 5
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