TERRITORIAL TRAINING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25393, 26 November 1943, Page 2

TERRITORIAL TRAINING

NOTICES TO RESERVISTS ONE MONTH IN CAMP Notices provisionally posting men in Otago for one month’s territorial training in camp are in the process of distribution’. These notices are for the purpose of allowing employers to arrange their staffs so that they can release men for harvest work and so that appeals can be lodged where it is considered impossible to release them. Most of the notices also contain formal notification that the men will be liable for out-of-camp training on two days a month. This should not be taken as an indication that the out-of-camp training scheme is to be introduced immediately after the harvesting work is completed, but is purely a warning to reservists that they will be liable when the time comes. When the training scheme is introduced consideration will be given to residence in relation to the nearest training unit. The army will specify certain training units, and all eligible men within a radius of three miles will train with it. Men outside the radius fixed will probably be required to serve a period in camp each year, but no information on this point will be available until the full out-of-camp training scheme is introduced by the army.