CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVIII, Issue 49, 12 January 1940, Page 3

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS

FOR FORMATION OF RAILWAY CORPS APPEAL TO PUBLIC WORKS MEN. CHRISTCHURCH, Last night. Posted on, works throughout New Zealand is an appeal by the Minister of Public Works (the Hon. R. Semple) for recruits for the New Zealand Railway Survey, Construction and Maintenance Company for service overseas. It will he necessary for accepted applicants to enter camp about the first week in February and leave for service overseas after a short period of trainings The company will he officered by engineers of the Public Works Department. “In the last war the New Zealand Tunnelling Corps made a name for itself,” adds the Minister. “Men of the Public Works Department have demonstrated in recent years that their ability to work at their calling in the constructional field is equal to that of the men of any other country. I am convinced that we can organise a company in the Public Works Department that will put up a record unprecedented in the past struggle. I appeal for .officers and workmen capable, competent and healthy enough to undertake this job in the defence of the Empire, the liberty of our people, and the protection and preservation of our form of government which is at stake and is the freest in the world, to volunteer their services. ’ ’

The general conditions of enlistment and service in the railway company will he the same as those of other units in the Second Expeditionary Force. Sixteen commissioned officers, including a medical officer, are required, and approximately 371 other ranks, including non-commis-sioned officers.