ACTIVITY IN THREE CENTRES.

Camp News (Northern Command), Volume 1, Issue 13, 26 July 1940, Page 7

ACTIVITY IN THREE CENTRES.

Jbbilised in the Northern Military Wict under the new training -me for the Territorial Force are 'brosorfl about 1300 officers, non-i bhissioned officers and men, and in i following few months when the W of other units are called up a b larger number will be in training. 'iftose on 700 officers, non-commis-iio ;d officers and men of an infantry flip- the Ist Battalion, Auckland Rent (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own), . nanded by Lieutenant-Colonel C. .fi]](|Vorley, V.D., are to-day in the m id week of their three months’ losing, two months of which they be at Alexandra Park, Epsom, edp living at their homes, and the month they will spend, under as in the park. Prior to taking the training of the battalion the I[it rs and non-commissioned oncers - one month in the District School, open: NT 1 , ow Neck. leave -< x . give Artillery and Engineers. Ngaruawahia camp have gone

—.200 officers and non-commission-ficers of the artillery units, the njpield Regiment (Lieutenant-Col-F. C. Soar, E.D.)' and the 7th IF (pry of the Bth Medium Regiment

- tain F. M. Yendall), and the Ist Company of Engineers (Secondtenants R. T. Toy and C. M. TayOn July 1 they began a course | ding over two months. In Sep- “ er they will return to their home rn)L es —Auckland in the case of the ! ield Regiment and Ist Field Comfaff, and Hamilton in the case of , Ci- of the 7th Battery— train omn®men for a month. During OcMcMand November all ranks will be Epsinp. Ist Hhe city District School, Nar-l-RJiieckhave come about 350 offiA'urand non-commissioned officers of of three country infantry units—the vopaiattalions of the Hauraki (Lieu-youfr-Colonel B. R. Penlington), kura Auckland (Lieutenant-Colonel .vahia Jack, M.C., E.D.), and the Waiof th: Regiments (Lieutenant-Colonel wary Mackersey). They, in addition leers icers and non-commissioned offiwhoof.the Auckland Company of the he ne’' Zealand Scottish Regiment .tenant P. A. Tarelton), will be ? school for three months’ inten’ECLraining, after which the men of inits will be mobilised for three hs’ camp. Jieiher Northern Military . District 1011 l suc h as the Auckland (East w.t) Mounted Rifles, Waikato - ited Rifles, North Auckland Mo?d Regiment, Ist Composite Com- j s’P'. of the Army Service Corps, Nor’.‘"i i District • Signal Company and “'/ield Ambulance of the Medical V s will be proceeding to camp from jfjji month onward. rj" has not yet been decided in which a is the units will be accommodated, i