ARMY MECHANISATION
NEW EQUIPMENT ARRIVES (Per Tress Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The first consignment of armoured Bren carriers, of which the Go eminent has ordered a mmvber, in accordance with its policy of P™ viding the territorial army with the latest equipment, a f lved fho % n pJd Opawa on Tuesday from the unreel Kingdom. They were conveyed to Trentham for overhaul and runmngin’During the morning the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, the Minister of Defence, the Hon. F. Jones, and the Minister of Finance, the Hon. W. Nash, inspected one of the vehicles in front of Parliament Buildings. They expressed themselves as deeply impressed b, possibilities of the armoured carrier, which represents the latest development in army mechanisation.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19884, 10 March 1939, Page 14
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122ARMY MECHANISATION Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19884, 10 March 1939, Page 14
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