CAMBRIDGE CAMP

Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21480, 23 July 1941, Page 4

CAMBRIDGE CAMP

TRANSFER OF TROOPS MOUNTEDS FOR HOPU HOPU Rumours that the territorial training camp at Cambridge is to be closed and the men transferred to Hopu Hopu are rife in Cambridge, but the Army authorities have no announcement to make. However, there are definite indications that the size of the camp is to be reduced considerably. The explanation given for the projected change is that the Cambridge camp has been proved to be quite unsuitable for training many hundreds of men over an extended period. The inadequate sewerage at the camp has caused a good deal of uneasiness among the health authorities but to remedy the trouble would involve an outlay of at least £ISOO, and, rather than authorise this, the Army authorities had decided to transfer most of the troops to Hopu Hopu. This, it is understood, involved the Waikato, Auckland and East Coast Mounted Rifles, but not the field ambulance units. - The recent case of spinal meningitis at Hopu Hopu has suspended the plan for transferring troops from Cambridge. It is expected, however, that those territorial trainees who have completed their training by the end of the present month will be able to leave the camp and return to their civil occupations. The present intention is to continue the training of the Ist and 9th Field Ambulance at Cambridge camp.