MARCH OF TROOPS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23773, 28 September 1940, Page 13

MARCH OF TROOPS

AUCKLAND BATTALION COMPLETING TRAINING SALUTE AT TOWN HALL To mark the completion of its intesive training course under the Government's home defence scheme, the Ist Battalion, Auckland Regiment, will march through the city from the Domain this morning. A salute will be taken outside the Town Hall by the Mayor, Sir Ernest Davis. To-morrow afternoon the battalion will be inspected and reviewed by the officer commanding the Northern Military District, Colonel N. W. McD. Weir, N.Z.S.C., and visitors will be permitted at the Epsom Show Grounds camp from 1.30 to 4.30, the review being timed for 2.30. The march to-day will begin from the Domain gates at 10..'30 after the battalion has boon brought from the camp by motor vehicles and tramcars, and the route to be followed will be Park Road, Grafton Bridge, Karangahape Road, Queen Street, Customs Street East, Beach Road, Farnell Road, Newmarket, Manukau Road and back to the camp bv way of Green Lane. A halt will be made on the Parnell Rise. The order of march will be the Motor-cycle Platoon, then the battalion's band, followed by headquarters and the four companies, and then by the battalion's 26 motor transport vehicles. It will be the first time that the city has seen one of its territorial battalions marching through the streets in full establishment.

MORE CAMPS STARTING ACTIVITIES NEXT WEEK Another period in the Government's home defence training scheme will hegin on Tuesday, when a number of territorial units will camp for their intensive training courses. Other units will transfer to full-time camps after carrying out a month's training by means of daily parades, and on Monday the city's infantry fortress unit, the Ist Battalion, Auckland Regiment, will break camp after three months' training and the men will he free to return to their civilian employment. The Ist Field Regiment, New Zealand Artillery, which has been parading daily at the Avondale racecourse since the beginning of this month, is transferring to Rotorua racecourse on Monday, It will be succeeded at Avondale by the Ist Field Company, New Zealand Engineers, which, however, will go under canvas, having already done a month's work at Ellerslie by daily parades. The Ist Battalion, Auckland Regiment, will he followed at Epsom Show Grounds by the Auckland Company, Now Zealand Scottish Regiment. On Tuesday the Ist Battalion, Waikato Regiment, will go into camp at the Cambridge racecourse, the Ist Battalion, Hauraki Regiment, will encamp at To Aroha racecourse, and the Ist Battalion, North Auckland Regiment, will start camp at the Whangarei racecourse. TROOP MOVEMENTS TE RAPA AND NGARUAWAHIA [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Friday Following the removal of the isolation ban at the To Rapa military camp, imposed on account of measles, the 29th Battalion lias been reorganised as a separate unit by the transfer of members from Ngaruawahia to To Rapa. Other details of units encamped at To Rapa, members of the Army Service Corps, Engineers, Survey Battery and Artillery, have been removed to Papakura. Long week-end leave will be granted to 75 per cent of the To Rapa men. whose numbers havo been slightly increased as the result of the exchanges. WHANGAREI PREPARATIONS NORTH AUCKLAND REGIMENT [from our own correspondent] WHANOARKI, Friday The advance party of three officers and 30 men of the North Auckland Regiment went into camp at Kensington Park yesterday. The regiment commander. Colonel A. D. Jack, with the other officers, are expected to arrive in camp "t the end of the week, while the main body of troops will report on October 1. The Public Works Department has been busy for the past week erecting tents for 800 men. The touts used are from the Public Works Department, and not the usual military bell tout.

AEROPLANE FUNDS COMPANIES' CONTRIBUTIONS [by TKI/ECRAPH —Pit ESS association] WELLINGTON', Friday A variation in the regulations which will enable trustees ana companies to contribute to aeroplane funds for the purpose of providing aeroplanes for the Royal Air Force or for the defence of New Zealand or training pilots in Canada under the Empire training scheme, where articles of association have hitherto prevented them from doing so, is contained in a Gazette notice. INTEREST-FREE LOANS WORKERS' UNION GfFT [nv TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Friday A further list of interest-free loans and donations to the war fund acknowledged by the Minister of Finance, the Hon. W. Nash, brings the total to £2.585.246. The members of the New Zealand Workers' Union have forwarded £I2OO as a gift. It was indicated that a further substantial sum would follow in due course.