ARMY STAFF SCHOOL
ESTABLISHMENT AT WAIOURU COMMANDANT AND INSTRUCTORS ARRIVE (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Sept. 18. A party of officers who will form the senior staff of the new command and staff school which is to be established at Waiouru as part of the general reorganisation of the Dominion's land forces has arrived in Auckland. They will take up their new duties very shortly. On loan from the War Office as commandant of the school is Colonel V, F, S. Hawkins, M.C.. an Imperial Staff officer. Other members of the party are four senior officers of the New Zealand Staff Corps. Majors, J. I. Brooke, J, Brooke-White, A. H. Cockerell. D. 5.0., and F. L. H. Davis, and Major A. L. Hogg, New Zealand Artillery. Major Brooke-White is an engineer staff officer. The purpose of the command and staff school, it was recently stated by (he Minister of Defence, Mr F. Jones, is to provide officers in New Zealand with higher training in modern methods of warfare. The senior staff officers brought back from the Expeditionary Force as instructors have all had experience of recent fighting. The school is being established as a result of recommendations made by the military adviser to the Government, General Sir Guy Williams, as is the armoured fighting vehicle school, which will also be located at Waiouru.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24716, 19 September 1941, Page 9
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