MILITARY TRAINING

Camp News (Northern Command), Volume 1, Issue 29, 15 November 1940, Page 8

MILITARY TRAINING

Much Activity In Central District TERRITORIAL UNITS . IN CAMP There is considerable military training activity throughout the Central Military District, its scope having been increased by the calling-up of men under the scheme for expansion of the Territorial forces. At Trentham the 4th Reinforcements have entered the third week of their training. Prospective n.c.o.’s. for the sth Reinforcements are at work in the Central District School of Instruction (Trentham Wing), officers for the 6th Reinforcements are undergoing intensive courses at the Army School of Instruction, and Territorial signallers —half the Central District Company and half the Northern District Companyhave commenced their three months in camp. At the Tauherenikau Wing of the Central District. School officers and n.c.o.s of the 2nd Battalion, Welli. 3ton Regiment (City of Wellington’s Own) and the 2nd Battalion. Hawke’s Bay Regiment—two new units forming part of the expanded Territorial establishment to be recruited from the second National Service ballothave commenced a three months’ course of instruction ready for the calling up of the units for three months’ training in January. The camp commandant is

Major J. M. Reidy, N.Z.S.C., Officer Commanding the Central District School. There is another wing of the Central District School at the Winter Show Buildings, Wellington, where, yesterday prospective n.c.o.s for the 2nd Battalion, Wellington Regiment and 2nd Battalion, Hawke’s Bay Regiment, entered camp for a ten weeks’ course. The commandant at the Winter Show Buildings is Captain K. C. B. Muirson. Fort Dorset and the 16th Anti-Air-craft Battery are other war establishments in the Wellington area where training is being carried on continuously. Fort Dorset also Contains the recently established School of ArtilFery, where special courses of instruction are provided for fortress personnel from the whole of the Dominion. At present commissioned officers from Auckland, Lyttelton, and Wellington are undergoing instruction there. In addition to the signallers’ camp at Trentham, camps for Territorial units now undergoing three months’ continuous training have been established, pending the completion of Waiouru Camp, at lour places.

At Foxton the 2nd Field Regiment and the Bth Medium Battery, New Zealand. Artillery, and the 2nd Field Company, New Zealand Engineers, are occupying a canvas camp. The commandant is Major Mustcroft-Taylor. The Ist Battalion, Wellington West Coast Regiment and A Company, New Zealand Scottish Regiment, are encamped at Wanganui. LieutenantColonel D. A. C. Lilburne, E.D., Officer Commanding the Wellington West Coast Battalion, is Camp Commandant. The Ist Battalion, Taranaki Regiment commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel L. H. Jardine, is in camp at Waverley, and the Ist Battalion, Hawke’s Bay Regiment, is at Dannevirke. The officer commanding is Lieutenant-Colonel Jefferd. The Territorial units at these camps will transfer to Waiouru as soon as the new camp is readyprobably about the middle of next month. They will remain in camp till Christmas time.