RECRUITS LEAVE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 160, 15 May 1940, Page 4

RECRUITS LEAVE

FAREWELL AT STATION There was n large crowd at the Whakatane West railway station this morning •"when the district's recruits for the Third Echelon left for Papakura camp. Some of them had entrained at Taneatua and others will join at various stations along the line. There was a cheery atmosphere pervading the gathering and the train pulled cut to the accompaniment of cheers and laughter. Those from the Bay of Plenty posted to units at the Trentham and Burnharn camps left for the South yesterday and it seems as though almost as many men from, this district are at the Southern, camps as at Papakura. BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS OVER 4000 COLLECTED 1 CANVASS BY BOY SCOUTS The canvass for old books for despatch to men of the New Zealand fighting forces, carried out by the local Boy Scouts last Saturday, met with a response which was reallysplendid. In all some 4000 copies of books ,magazines, periodicals, and papers were gathered by the scouts, who left no stone unturned to cover all houses in the Borough. The collection is now in the Borough Council Chambers, and repre-* septs one of the most complete ever assembled there. The variety is wide enough to satisfy every conceivable taste in fiction while there are many other excellent educational books which should be most acceptable.