PLANS CHANGED

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 59, Issue 4221, 8 December 1939, Page 5

PLANS CHANGED

TROOPS TO VACATE WAIOURU CAMP. EFFECT OF DECISION RE HOLIDAYS. All members lof the Special Military Force now an camp at Waiouru for advanced training will return on Sunday to the camps where they were first stationed. This means that the 800 men from New Zealand Engineers anld Divisional Cavalry will move to Ngaruawahia and the 19th (Wellington) Battalion will go back to Trentham. The change in arrangements, as the troops were to receive about a fortnight’s advanced training at Waiouru, has resulted from the Government’s decision to grant all members of tfie first echelon Christinas leave lof a fortnight. The Waiouru men will thus be despatched for leave from the camps from which they transferred last Sunday to Waiouru. Arrangements are well in hand for the provision of train transport for the whole of the echelon, and plans are now being made for the release of the units on different days. To enable the units- to move out easily from Waiouru to Ngaruawahia anti Trentham respectively, no leave will be granted on Saturday. Instead the troops will prepare to brea,k camp. Special trains will take them to their “home” camps.