MOUNTED RIFLES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 29 June 1939, Page 12

MOUNTED RIFLES

YOUNG FARMERS’ CLUB UNITS SEVERAL ALREADY FORMED I UnuPress Ahhoi-Im non 1 WELLINGTON, 27th June. Valuable assistance in the expansion and reorganisation of the mounted rifles regiments is being given the Territorial Army by young farmers’ clubs in various parts of the Dominion. Several have already formed units. The lead was given by the four or five branches of the federation around Timaru, which some months ago formed sub-units of the Timaru machinegun company of the Canterbury Regiment. Since then the Amberley branch has formed a machine-gun troop for the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry, and the Hunterville branch has formed a troop for the Manawatu Mounted Rifles. The Fordell and Westmere branches are forming a troop for Queen Alexandra's (.Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles, which have their headquarters in Hawera, and the Bulls branch is forming a local unit of the Manawatu Mounted Rifles. In expressing appreciation of the assistance being given by young farmers’ clubs, the secretary of the Central Recruiting Committee, Major G. H. Clifton, said that the federation had several thousand members who had at their disposal some of the finest horses in the Dominion. The men were ideal prospective recruits for mounted rifles regiments.