TROOPS LEAVE TODAY

Southland Times, Issue 23947, 13 October 1939, Page 8

TROOPS LEAVE TODAY

MORE RECRUITS FOR BURNHAM ARRANGEMENTS MADE FOR ENTRAINING Seventy-three recruits in the Rifle Battalion and the Machine-Gun Battalion will leave by the express for Bumham this morning, under Captain I. O. Manson and Staff Sergeant Major J. Little and Sergeant A. McGregor. The two front cars in which the recruits will travel will be barricaded off from the public until the troops are on board and the roll is checked. As soon as that is done the barricades will be removed and the public will be allowed access to the cars. . .... . 4 Major H. C. MacKenzie, Adjutant to the Southland Regiment and area officer, stated in an interview with The Southland Times yesterday that the public would greatly assist in the entraining of the troops if it realized the necessity of having the roll properly checked. If there was no interference the whole business would be over in 10 minutes, and visitors would then be free to make their farewells. The same arrangements, he added, would apply on Sunday night, when another contingent of recruits would leave for Trentham and the Waikato. The following recruits will leave by the express this morning for Bumham: — RIFLE BATTALION S. J. Allison, P. Amos. C. A. Barnett, A. J. Brennan. E. Emerson. D. R. Forsyth, H. D. Fraser. J. T. B. Gutsell. R. J. Halford, T. E. Hardwick, E. G. Harvey, H. J. Harvey, D. W. Henderson, F. Hunt. S. James, R. D. Johnstone. S. Kitto.

F. M. Laing, G. A. W. Lilley. G. B. Mackie, A. McNeill, W. Mitchell, J. A. Moffitt, H. K. McCauley, T. C. Miller, E. Millard. G. Niven. A. J. Palmer. J. H. Reid, G. D. Robson. A. Scobie, H. C. U. Strang, G. T. Staite, E. B. Smith, A. G. Silvester. C. I. A. Thomson.

W. R. Whittle, . J. G. Watson, J. W. William, G. W. Wheeler, A. E. Wells, S. Wilson.

MACHINE-GUN BATTALION

A. R. Anderson, F. F. Archer, G. A. Aston.

S. A. Bishop, D. A. Brown, R. S. Brown, L. M. Brosnan. D. W. Campbell, W. J. Chatfield. S. C. Davidson. L. L. R. Fretwell. A. Hanley. R. Hunter. s. J. Kidd.

T. K. Lay, A. W. Lee, D. H. Luke. I. McAnsh, R. D. McCurdy, R. V. MacDonald, R. H. McLean, J. A. McLean, G. I. McLellan, H. A. McLachlan, I. H. Mills. T. H. Phillipps. A. L. W. Reid. A. T. Strang, A. A. Stronach, R. W. Sutton. E. Townsend.

SEVEN RECRUITS YESTERDAY

SITTING OF MEDICAL BOARD Seven more recruits enlisted at the Invercargill Defence headquarters yesterday in the special force for service within New Zealand or overseas. A sitting of the Medical Board was held yesterday when 26 recruits were examined. Of that number 22 passed as fit. It is reported that this is the biggest percentage of passes the board has issued in one batch. The following were yesterday’s enlistments: — Barron, Robert William, labourer, dummies Bush. Berryman, Edward William, railway porter, Clinton. Brown, Neil, labourer, Glenore. Cameron, Donald Murdoch Alexander, labourer, 72 Morton street. Fagan, Alan Keith, surveyer, c/o P.W.D. Balclutha. Porter, James S. Sinclair, labourer, Gore. Prew, Henry Arthur, teamster, Fruitvale, Millers Flat.