NEW CAMP DATES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23699, 4 July 1940, Page 11

NEW CAMP DATES

TERRITORIAL TRAINING ALL UNITS AFFECTED THE AMENDED SCHEDULE Alterations have been made to former arrangements for tlie intensive training of northern military district territorial units. The result is a general acceleration of the district's participation in the Government's home defence plan. New camp dates are, all training to be in camp except where stated: —■ Ist Battalion, Auckland .Regiment.*— All ranks: July and August (home centres) and September. Ist Field Regiment and Bth Medium Regiment, New Zealand Artillery, and Ist Field Company, New Zealand Engineers.—Officers and N.C.O's.: July and August. All ranks: September (home centres), October and November. Ist Battalions, Hanraki, North Auckland and Waikato Regiments, and Auckland Scottish. Officers and N.C.O's.: July, August and September. All ranks: .October and November. Mounted Rifles. Officers and N.C.O's.: August and September. All ranks: January, February and March.

Ist Field Ambulance and Ist Composite Company, New Zealand Army Service Corps.—Officers and N.C.O's.: November and December. All ranks: January, February and March. Northern District Signal Company.— Officers and N.C.O's.: Middle of July to middle of September. All ranks: Middle of September to November (one half of company), and January, February and March (second half of company). Under these arrangements the Auckland Battalion will how spend one of its three months' training in camp while artillerymen and engineers will be given one of their three months by means of daily parades from their homes. Signallers will have their training spread in two sections to reduce inconvenience to the Post and Telegraph Department. The camps for the various units have not been decided, previous arrangements having in the meantime been cancelled.

WAIHI ENLISTMENTS 27 RECRUITS IN JUNE [from our own correspondent] WAIHI, Wednesday The local recruiting officer, Mr. E. C. Westbury, advises that for the month of .lime 27 enlistments for the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force have been received at the Waihi office. SOLDIERS' PENSIONS FORMS OF APPLICATION i [BT TELEGRAM —SPECIAL REPORTER] WELLINGTON, Wednesday The Minister of Defence, the Hon. F. Jones, stated to-daj' that, although the Government had passed regulations providing for the re-employment of soldiers by their employers after the soldiers were discharged from military duties, in some cases ex-soldiers would be entitled to war pensions. Consequently forms of application for such pensions would be obtainable from any agency of the Social Security Department, and each application would be determined by the War Pensions Board. There must of necessity be some delay in dealing with applications, and discharged soldiers in need of immediate assistance should claim benefit under the Social Security Act, as assistance either for sickness or unemployment could be given under that Act. Any benefit it granted under the Act_ would not prejudice a soldier's application for a war pension.

FREE USE OF LAUNCHES HELPING WAR ACCOUNT [BT TELEGRAPH SPECIAL REPORTER] WELLINGTON, "Wednesday It was mentioned to-day by the Minister of Defence, the Hon. F. Jones, that there are three motor-launches employed in the eastern approaches at Auckland as an _ integral part of the examination service. These boats were requisitioned for the purpose early in the war, and in two cases the owners have declined to accept charter money, which they are entitled to receive. One of these is Mr. J. Martyn Wilson. The second prefers to remain anonymous. In the third case a motor-launch is in trust, and the trustees have no power, although they wish to do so, to forgo the charter money. , . This action, said the Minister, was a real contribution to the war effort and represented in each case the equivalent of a donation of £156 a year to the War Expenses Account for the duration of the war.