DEFENCE OF N.Z. COAST
MANY APPLICATIONS BEING RECEIVED (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, December 15. The Minister of Defence (the Hon. F. Jones) stated today that a good many applications were being received by the Army authorities for the release of men who had been serving with the Fifteenth Heavy and Twenty-Second Anti-Aircraft Battery on coast defence and anti-aircraft duties. These were treated as sympathetically as possible, but it must be realized that in these highly technical emits there was a definite limit to the number of men who could be released as it was essential that the efficiency of the batteries be maintained. Many who were on coast defence and anti-aircraft stations naturally desired to join the special force for overseas and arrangements had been made for a certain number to obtain a transfer. This also necessitated additional men being recruited and trained. Any unmarried men between the ages of 19 and 21 and 36 and 40 desiring to serve should apply to the nearest defence office.
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Southland Times, Issue 24001, 16 December 1939, Page 6
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