N.Z. SPECIAL FORCE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20069, 16 October 1939, Page 11

N.Z. SPECIAL FORCE

DETAILS FOR POSTS GISBORNE VOLUNTEERS ! DEPARTURE NEXT WEEK Six volunteers from the Gisborne | area for service with the special .New Zealand forces, recruited for service lin the Dominion or overseas, have 1 been called up for service in posts outside the normal training and combatant units. They include one member of the New Zealand Nursing Service, who will take charge of the military hospital at Burnham camp, Canterbury. The nursing service member is Sister K. G. Hall, of the stall' of the Cook Hospital, who is to report at Burnham camp on October 17. She receives short notice of her appointment, and will have to leave Gisborne during the week-end to reach her destination by the date mentioned .in her notice. The other volunteers whose offers of service have been accepted are as under: — Divisional Intelligence Corps ■Smith, C. F., Gisborne. Berghan, H., Tuai. Divisional Postal Unit Barrow, F.A., Waerenga-a-hika. Base Post Office Patrick, J. A., Tokomaru Bay. Bose Post Office Ellis, B. A., Tolag'a Bay. These men will reach Trentham camp on Thursday, October 19, and will take up their duties at once. The four men from Gisborne and the East Coast will be dispatched from Gisborne on Wednesday afternoon, and will spend the night in Wairoa, where they will be joined by the volunteer from Tuai. On Thursday morning they will continue their journey by railcar to Napier, and by train thence to their destination.