TROOPS PARADE

Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 79, 27 June 1941, Page 5

TROOPS PARADE

Salute Taken By GovernorGeneral

MORE THAN 2200 MARCH

More than 2200 of all ranks of the 2nd N.Z.E.F. in training at Trentham paraded in Wellington on Saturday morning in conditions ideal for marching and reasonably pleasant for the public. The attendance along the line of the route was not so large as on previous occasions. The men looked fit and marched well. There were five bands, one pipe and four brass, and there appeared to be lack of synchronization in their march time.

Those who did witness the parade took the keenest interest, and. many, after seieng it on the first section of the route, went across to haye another look as the troops returned by the waterfront road back to the railway station.

. The salute was taken by the Governor-General, Sir Cyril Newall, from a base at the railway station. There the Government was represented by the Acting-Prime Minister, Mr. Nash, the Minister of Defence, Mr. Jones, the Minister of internal Affairs, Mr. Parry, the Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Barclay, and the Associate Minister of National Service, Mr. Wilson.

• At the 1 saluting base platform was also Lieutenant-General Sir Guy Williams, military adviser to the Government, the Hon. Adam Hamilton of the, War Cabinet, representatives of the Navy, -Army and Air Force, and the consular corps, and many other official guests.

The bands which took part were those of Trentham Camp, 2nd Field Regiment, N.Z.A., pipes and drums of the Ist Battalion, Wellington Regiment, and the military band of the same battalion, and the Port Nicholson Band. E ’

The parade was commanded by Major R. F. Mitchell, M.C., V.D.. N.Z.T.S., with Major J. G. C. Leach. Major A. E. Gorton, M.M., N.Z.T.S., and Major R. B. Hollis, M.C., N.Z.T.S., in command of the units into which the parade was divided.