THE TERRITORIALS
NEW UNIT FORMED HYGIENE SECTION The formation of Field Hygiene Sections having been decided on by the Army Department, as part of the Territorial Force, preparations are now being made for the selection of prospective non-commission-ed officers. At a later date the units will undergo two months' intensive training. One section will be located in each of the three military districts in the Dominion. Personnel for the unit are to be drawn from those classed medicall.v as Grade 2 or 3. and who have the "trade qualifications necessary. Men of the foregoing grodings are at liberty to apply fotßraclusion in the unit. For the first section 11 prospective non-commissioned officers are to attend a course of instruction at the New Zealand Medical Corps ■depot shortly. It has been laid down that men to fill these positions should in civil life be sanitary inspectors or trainees, chemists' apprentices or plumbers.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 285, 19 March 1941, Page 5
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151THE TERRITORIALS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 285, 19 March 1941, Page 5
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