TRAINING PROGRESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 14 September 1940, Page 11

TRAINING PROGRESS.

TERRITORIALS IN CAMP.

CLAUDELANDS AND HOPU HOPU.

HAMILTON, Friday.

Favoured by delightful weather, excellent progress has been made with the training of the 180 members of the 7th Medium Battery, who have been encamped at Claudelands since September 2. The general health of the men is good, and the experience is being much enjoyed. Only one case of measles has developed in the camp, and three other men suffering from minor complaints are in hospital.

Rifle drill, infantry training, medium gun and howitzer drill have occupied the men since they have been in camp. It was intended that the battery should move on to Waiouru on October 1, but it has since been decided to keep it at Claudelands until the end of October. Week-end leave from noon on Saturday until midnight on Sunday will be granted to members of A troop, all of whom come from Auckland. The camp will be open to visitors from 2 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. on Sunday, but there will be few men in camp at the time.

Officers and non-commissioned officers of the North Auckland (Motorised), Auckland and East Coast, and Waikato Regiments of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles are undergoing training at Ngaruawahia. Other ranks are expected to join the units on October 1. The venue of training after that date has not yet been decided. None of the members of the Mounted Rifles units at Ngaruawahia has been affected with measles.