PUBLIC WORKS MEN FOR ARMY

Camp News, Volume 1, Issue 9, 9 February 1940, Page 7

PUBLIC WORKS MEN FOR ARMY

♦ Railway Company Strength Of 386 ' . < Officers and employees of the Public Works Department have been advised bf the details of the New Zealand Railway Survey, Construction and MaintenOnce Company for service overseas which the military authorities have galled on the department to organise. , According to a general circular Signed by the engineer-in-chief and un-der-secretary, Mr. J. Wood, rhe genera; Conditions of enlistment and service will be the same as for other units of Che Special Force age 21-35; physically fit for service in any part of the world: preference to single men, bur ;Avhere these are not available, married z men with up to two children will be accepted. Applicants will be required to enter camp early in February and ■to proceed overseas after a short perpod of training. f Sixteen commissioned officers (including a medical officer) are required, ’and the approximate number of other

ranks, including non-commissioned officers, will be 371. The latter figure is made up of : — Headquarters section : Sergeants, 2; corporals, 2.; sappers, 12; medical ofli cer’s orderlies, 2; clerks, 3; draughtsmen (railway construction), 2; batmen, 2; cook. 1; drivers 1.C., 3; motor-cyc-lists, 5. Total, 34. Survey section: Company quarter master-sergeant, 1; sergeants. 4; cor porals, 7; sappers, 52. Total, 64. Railway construction company: Company sergeant-major, 1 ; company quartermaster-sergeant, 1: sergeants, S; corporals, 20; sappers, 235; first reinforcements, 8. Total, 273. The corporals and sappers of the railway construction company will • include blacksmiths, bricklayers, carpenters and joiners, clerks, draughtsmen (railway construction), drivers (transportation plant), fitter-drivers, fitters, fitters (railway signal), masons, painters and decorators, platelayers, plumbers and gasfitters, riggers, riveters, storemen (technical and departmental railway), surveyors (railway), welders (acetylene and electric), engine" hands, I.C. blacksmiths’ strikers or hammermen, stokers (stationary engine), cooks, fitters’ mates, motor-cyclists, drivers 1.C., batmen.

Volunteers are to submit their applications to the officer-in-charge of the work on which they are employed. Offi cers-in-charge of works are forwarding applications to the district engineei immediately they are received. The Army Department is arranging for enrolment and medical examination of volunteers after the applications have been considered in Wellington. •