HAURAKI REGIMENT
TERRITORIAL CAMP OCTOBER TO DECEMBER COMFORT AND WELL-BEING OF MEN An appeal For funds to ensure the well-being and comfort of tlie men of the Ist Battalion, Hauraki Regiment. which goes into camp for a three months' course o! intensive training on Ist October, has been made by Lt. Col. R. B. Penlington, Officer Commanding the Regiment. "On Ist October next the personnel of the Hauraki Regiment is due to enter the Military Camp at Waiouru for a three months' course os intensive training," he writes. "The camp iss ituauted in an isolated spot remote from any settlement, so that many of the amenities which lessen the rigours of camp life, and which are available to soldiers in camps situated near a town or city, will be lacking. "To make up for such drawbacks it is desired to have sufficient funs available for immediate use to purchase from time to time whatever may be necessary, or desirable, to ensure the comfort and well-being of the men of the Regiment. I now write to ask for your active support in this, matter. "I am confident that this appeal will be readily supported by the people of your district, seeing that a large number of young men from there have enrolled and will be serv ing in the Regiment. As time is short, there being barely a month to the date appointed for going into camp, and a great deal of organisation has to be done before then, I shall be grateful if such financial assistance as your Association can give or procure be sent to The Adjutant, Hauraki Regiment, Army Office, Paeroa, as early as possible. Endorsing the appeal of Colonel Penlington we must all remember: (1) These volunteers hold New Zealand for us for the time being, (2) Most of them give up their summer for three gruelling months of intensive training. (3) They get no medals, no voyages, no receptions, no glory. New Zealand at war finds citizens in this town and district generous in giving, and appeals for the essential finance to honour those joining the fighting forces have brought spontaneous answers. Now the opportunity comes to do something for our own Regiment, the Ist Battalion the Hauraki Regiment.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 216, 23 September 1940, Page 5
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373HAURAKI REGIMENT Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 216, 23 September 1940, Page 5
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