AWAPUNI CAMP.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14620, 26 January 1918, Page 7

AWAPUNI CAMP.

LIKELY TO BE CLOSED

It is likely that the-ambulance-rein-forcement camp at Awapuci will be closed in the near future. The ;>mbulaiicH men will be transferred to Featherstoii camp, where there is now sufficient room for them owing to t'leieduction of the reinforcement quotas.

Last year, when the, reinforcement quota was relatively high, the Defence authorities required to have over 10.----000 men in camp at one time, and -this meant that both Trentham and Feutherston were, full without providing for the'ambulance men. The number »■: men .in.training .month by month will be substantially, smaller thisi,.year, and it wiii thus be possible to givo the ambulance recruits 'their training at Featherston. The closing of the smaller camp wili effect an economy.-