DOMINION SOLDIERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 November 1941, Page 7

DOMINION SOLDIERS

HOLIDAY LEAVE CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR. ARRANGEMENTS BY ARMY HEADQUARTERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Leave to be granted members of the military forces at Christmas and New Year has been arranged by Army Headquarters. All Expeditionary Force soldiers in New Zealand, including the Army Tank Brigade at Waiouru, will be able to have both holidays at home. Many of the home defence forces will enjoy the same-privilege, while others will be given leave as opportunity occurs. Expeditionary Force troops will be dispatched in two groups. Some will have leave from December 18-19 to January 5, and the others will be away from their camps from December 21-22 to January 6. Territorials apart from cadres will be dispatched to reach their homes by December 23. This means that those who would normally be demobilised at the end of December, after completing three months’ training, will finish more than a week earlier. Training cadres will be given leave for part or all of the period from De-cember-22 to January 5 inclusive, subject to carrying out duties, such as draft conducting, for -which they may bd detailed. Camp staffs will have 14 days’ leave during December or January, as opportunity occurs. Fortress troops and guards at vital points will be given 14 days’ leave from December 23 inclusive as duties permit. They will be sent away from time to time in small detachments so that their posts are still constantly and sufficiently manned.