NEW ZEALAND DEFENCE.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday.
The Minister for Defence announced in May that the future requirements tc replace normal wastage due to officers retiring on reaching the age limit would be met by sending New Zealand boys to England for training, Sandhurst for cavalry and infantry, Woolwich for artillery and engineers, and Cranwell for the air force. It is now announced that the 1926 selections are Gunner Geoffrey Ilardwin Heal, eldest son of Mr S. G. Heal, of Island Bay, from the North Island, and Cadet Shuttle-worth, of Nelson College Cadets, from the South Island. The hoys will leave for England on December 5 by the steamer Rotorua and will undergo 18 months’ training at Sandhurst, after which they -will he attached for six months to the British Army before returning to New Zealand to take up positions on the Defence Staff.
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Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16655, 21 November 1925, Page 7
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