SIGNALLERS TRAIN

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21191, 14 August 1940, Page 9

SIGNALLERS TRAIN

POST AND TELEGRAPH MEN FROM FOUR MAIN CENTRES (By Telegraph.—press Association) WELLINGTON, Tuesday From the four main centres of New Zealand, officers and noncommissioned officers of the New Zealand Corps of Signals are undergoing a 10-weeks’ intensive course at the Army School of Instruction, Trentham. They are in civil life employees of the Post and Telegraph Department. Telegraphists, engineers, chauffeurs, mailroom workers, linesmen, operators and other branches of the service are represented in the corps. Their job in war is the maintenance of communications by wireless, line, key and speech telegraphy, and by visual aids such as flags, lamps and the heliograph. The corps has its own transport and mobile wireless station vehicles, cable-laying waggons and despatch riders. Eighty officers and noncommissioned officers are taking the course, the latter consisting of the sergeants and half of the corporals. At the end of the course half those who have completed it will go into tented camps with half the complete personnel of their district units. The remainder will return to their work, thus ensuring that the department will not be embarrassed at a busy period. After Christmas they, in turn, will go into camp to train the balance of the men of their units in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.