PLANS CHANGED

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21156, 4 July 1940, Page 6

PLANS CHANGED

TERRITORIAL TRAINING BATTERY PARADES FROM HOME INFANTRY AND MOUNTEDS Amendments have been announced to the plans for the intensive training of territorial units, including an alteration of dates for the calling up of the men of the ranks, and also including the provision in some cases for portion of the training to be carried out at home instead of at campj. Members of the 7th Battery of the Bth Medium Regiment are included in the new plans. The officers, non-commissioned officers, and prospective non-commissioned officers of this Hamilton unit are already in training at Hopu Hopu camp. They will complete that preparatory course at the end of August. All ranks of the battery will be called up in September for three months’ intensive training as previously planned, but the first month, that is, the September training, will be carried out in Hamilton by means of daily parades from the territorials’ homes. The remainder of the course, during October and November, will be undertaken in camp. Although the unit was to have encamped at Waiouru, that arrangement has in the meantime been cancelled, and no camp has been fixed for any of the territorial units. The Ist Battalion of the Waikato Regiment will, however, undergo its entire training in camp, Officers and non-commissioned officers are at present at Narrow Neck, but instead of remaining there for two months as previously planned the course will extend for a third month to the end of September. The men of the ranks will have only two months’ training, but it will all be done in camp and there will be no special daily parades from the homes. Plans have also been announced for the training of the Waikato Mounted Rifles Regiment. Officers and non-commissioned officers will encamp in August until the end of September. All ranks will encamp in January for three months’ intensive training ending in March. NEARLY 50,000 ENLIST DETAILS FOR DOMINION <By Telegrapa.- -Press Association) WELLINGTON, Thursday Dominion enlistments increased by 3480 to 49,990 last week. Of these, up till the end of the week, 33,803 had been passed fit, 23,856 sent to camp, 5590 were awaiting despatch to camp, and 1312 were not immediately available for camp. PERSONAL Messrs H. G. Kerr, H. Sherman (North Auckland), T. H. Wiggs, T. Kane (Christchurch), and F. Kurgess (Hanmer Springs) are at the Hamilton Hotel. Mr T. Miller, formerly stationmaster at Frankton Junction, has taken up the position of stationmaster at Auckland. Mr F. W. Mothes, who for some years has been managing director of me Goldberg Advertising Agency, Sydney and Melbourne, has resigned that position in order to return to New Zealand to offer his services for war work in the Dominion. Mr Mothes enlisted in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force Main Body in August, 1914, and saw 4& years’ war service in Gallipoli, England and France. After being found unfit for further active service, as a result of being wounded on Gallipoli, he was given an administrative position at N.Z.E.F. Headquarters, London, and during 1917 and 1918 was Second in Command, N.Z.E.F. Record Office, London and Rouen. For his services he received the decoration of Member of the Order of the British Empire.