MOTORS FOR THE FORCE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2234, 21 August 1914, Page 6

MOTORS FOR THE FORCE.

NO COST TO STATE. Arrangements for the equipping of. the Expeditionary Force with motorcars, motor-lorries, motor-bicycles, and bicycles are being carried out by Lieu-tenant-Colonel A. M. JMyers, commanding the Motor Keserve, and hie two Staff officers, Major Norton Francis and Captain Beauchamp Platts. Colonel Myers informed a reporter yesterday that all the arrangements were well in hand. All the motor vehicles, to go with tho force had been selected with care, and tho vehicles would all he dispatched in perfect order, with tho necessary supplies of spares, so that on arrival at their destination immediate use could bo made o;? all of. the vehicles.' It was satisfactory to state that all tho (motorcars and motor-lorries to equip tho forco had oither been-subscribed for by people who had made their cash gifts specially applicable -. for this purpose, or had been specially donated. • Tho vehicles would therefore bo sent freo of cost to tho Government. Tho only money to bo found by the Government would be for tho purchase of some motor-cycles <ind a number of bicycles. A comparatively small number of the bicyoles required had yofc been donated, so that any person desirous of making contributions towards, .thjs. part of the, epJP/

ment of New Zealand's force could still do so. Drivers for all the motor yehicles had. been arranged for by the Army Service Corps.