MEN FOR SECOND ECHELON

Southland Times, Issue 24027, 18 January 1940, Page 6

MEN FOR SECOND ECHELON

Southland Recruits Leave Next Week FOUR ENLISTMENTS YESTERDAY Eighty-five recruits for the 2nd Echelon of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force will leave Southland by the morning express on Monday for Burnham, Trentham and Ngaruawahia. The majority of the men will enter Burnham camp, but five have been allotted to the machine-gun battalion at Trentham and 38 will be sent to Ngaruawahia. There were four enlistments at Invercargill yesterday, this being the smallest number for considerably more than a week. The names of the men leaving on Monday, with the units to which they will be attached, are as follows:— BURNHAM DIVISIONAL SUPPLY COLUMN G. A. Adam, J. Dymock, W. H. N. Haselmore, G. J. Jones, M. P. Reitcheson, W. J. Shaw, G. W. Cruickshank, T. Redman, G. Barron, H. T. Dawson, I. R. Guildford, A. R. Harrington, H. I. Herbert, T. Jones, M. J. Kent, A. D. Macßae, L. W. Palmer, L. J. Pratt, J. F. Storrie, D. G. Thomson. FIELD AMBULANCE A. Jamieson, D. C. Matheson, R. W. Barron, J. G. Edwards, G. E. L. Lake, J. McLean, A. J. Sutton. ARMY SERVICE CORPS E. F. Cosgrove, I. C. Adcock, C. L. McConnell, F. W. Pascoe, R. T. G. Rowley. RIFLE BATTALION A. G. Campbell, G. T. Holland, A. T. R. Moffatt, W. R. Patterson, M. H. Todd, J. Valli, A. H. Waddick, E. G. W. Ludke, R. J. Marshall, R. E. Rawle. TRENTHAM MACHINE-GUN BATTALION F. M. Carter, G. W. Horsham, M. A. Murdoch, J. E. O’Grady, H. Rolfe. NGARUAWAHIA

ANTI-TANK REGIMENT B. Agnew, J. W. Horn, J. R. Calder, R. N. Agnew, E. A. Ashby, L. W. Benfell, A. H. F. Carr, J. H. Cooper, J. J. Crowe, E. Donaldson, F. T. Kubala, J. W. McLean, J. P. Munro, O. Phillips, J. R. Spence, P. Taylor, H. W. Witsey, R. Wixon, FIELD ARTILLERY REGIMENT R. Anderson, J. F. Churstain, W. R. Clark, W. T. Egerton, T. F. Frewen, H. J. Gawith, N. Henderson, C. F. Leckie, H. G. Manson, C. H. Sharp, D. J. Stewart, D. Tanner, H. Thompson, H. J. Thompson, J. F. Carston, W. G. Clarke, J. C. Condon, W. V. Cook, C. E. Parsons, B. H. Richardson. The following weer yesterday’s recruits. One man did not wish his name to be published. Doe, Mervyn Joseph, compressor attendant, Public Works Department, Spey street, Invercargill. Hodge, William John, 71 Earn street, Invercargill. Roberts, Arthur Valentine, labourer, Ohai. Twelve recruits were examined at a sitting of the Medical Board at Gore yesterday. Ten were passed as fit, one was classed as temporarily unfit and one will be re-examined tomorrow. ABATTOIR WORKERS PROTEST DESIRE OF EMPLOYEES TO ENLIST (United Press Association) AUCKLAND, January 17. Resentment was expressed at a stopwork meeting of the Auckland municipal abattoir employees this morning at the decision of the City Council to make formal application that essential workers in the abattoir should be placed on the same footing as freezing workers and debarred from military service. It is stated that a number of men desired to enlist and it was contended that an abattoir was not in the' same position as works killing for export. It was also claimed that killing was falling off and that there would be a lessened demand for local consumption. The meeting, which was largely attended, passed unanimously a resolution of protest at the council’s action and appointed a deputation to take the matter up with the council immediately.