TROOPS ON FARMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24760, 7 December 1943, Page 2

TROOPS ON FARMS

SECOND DRAFT DATES

WORK OVER NEW YEAR Territorial Force soldiers at present mobilised for haymaking and other farm tasks will leave their camps to return to their homes on December 16. The second batch of approximately 1000 men from th f . I^ or l thern r) JJpiJho? District will be mobilised on December 28 They will leave for the various centres that day. and will commence work on the following day. They will be demobilised on January Requests were made by Army Headquarters, Wellington that, if posslble, work over both the Christmas and Ng Year holiday periods should «e avoided. This would have entailed demobilising the first batch on December 23 and postponing the calling up 01 the second draft until January • survey of the requirements oi the awtriet however, revealed that this could not 'be done without serious inconvenience to farmers, as this period, particularly after Christmas, was the height of the harvesting season. Detailed arrangements concerning the units affected are not yet available. Most of the districts served byj the present draft again will be included, and about the only new areas are Whakatane, Opotiki and Taneatua. , The following list shows the number of men allocated to each district: Thames, 30; Paeroa, 10: Te Aroha, 100; Morrinsville, 100; Ngaruawahia and surrounding districts, 90; Cambridge, 60; Rukuhia, 90; Te Awamutu, 75; Otorohanga, 25; Rotorua, 40; Matamata and Tirau, 80; Putaruru and Tokoroa, 50; Opotiki, 2o; aimana, 10; Taneatua, 10; Edgecumbe, 20; Tauranga, 20; Te Puke, 20; Waihi, 30; Katikati, 20; Mnngatawhiri, 15; Pukekohe, 10; Onewhero, 15; Waiuku, 15; Papakura and surrounding areas, 45.