MAYOR FOR CAMP

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21250, 22 October 1940, Page 2

MAYOR FOR CAMP

RELEASED BY COMMITTEE FOR SERVICE OVERSEAS (By Tp'^rvl. —pro,* \ »<*'• j?I ion > CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday The Mayor, Mr R. M. Macfarlane, M.P., has been released from his duties by the Manpower Committee and will be available early in January to go into camp with the reinforcements for the Second Expeditionary Force. The mayor said today that he personally had never made any representations to the Manpower Committee to be released from service. The only consultations he had had with the committee following his enlistment were made with a view to being released for overseas sen-ice. The committee at its meeting last week had agreed to release him at the end of three months, which would be early in January. A hint that he would be going into camp was given by the Mayor at last night’s public meeting concerning the Home Guard, which was addressed by the Minister of National Service, the Hon. R. Semple. After he had been interrupted by members of the audience who belonged to a section which supplied frequent interjections throughout the meeting, the Mayor said that if those who had interrupted him met him at a later stage he would be only too glad to take them into camp with him for the reinforcements.