VACANCIES FILLED

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20668, 5 March 1937, Page 8

VACANCIES FILLED

CORONATION CONTINGENT By relfgraph Hies association WELLINGTON, March 4. Eight names of persons chosen by ballot for the Coronation Contingent to replace those who for medical reasons were withdrawn from the Contingent were announced to-night. After the final medical examination there were seven rejections, and since then another change, this one in the permanent staff representation, has been made for medical reasons. Those who enjoyed the luck of ballot are: R.S.A. Representatives F. J. Twiss (Wellington), accountant, Mental Hospitals Department, who served in the Light Trench Mortar Battery. Robert Lepper (Invercargill), who served with the First Battalion. New Zealand Rifle Brigade, and was awarded the D.C.M. E. T. Tirikatene, M.P. (Southern Maori), who went overseas with the Second Maori Contingent and served with the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion. Territorials G. A. Parsons (Rangiora) of the First Battalion, Canterbury Regiment. H. Blythe (Paeroa). of the First Battalion, Hauraki Regiment. H. F. Davis (Auckland), of the Northern Depot Army Service Corps. Permanent Staff Staff Sergt.-Major L. R. Stichbury. of New Zealand Permanent Staff, Gisborne. Nursing Division Miss Maud Mitchell, A.R.R.C. (Titahi Bay). Most of these new additions, together with the remaining members of the Contingent of 50, are in Trentham Camp. The Contingent will sail in the Rangitiki from Wellington at 3 p.m. on March 13.