N.Z. CONTINGENT FOR CORONATION

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 42, 5 March 1937, Page 13

N.Z. CONTINGENT FOR CORONATION

Press Assoelatlon.)

Last Eight Picked By Ballot

MOST IN CAMP

tBy Telegraph

WELLINGTON, Last Night. Eight nam.es of persons chosen l\v ballot for the Coronation contingeni to replace those who for medical reasous were withdrawn from the contiugent (were announeed to-night. Following the final medical examination there were seven rejections and since then another change, this one a permanent staff xepresentation, has bsen made for medical xeasons. Those who enjoyed the luek of the ballot are.— R.S.A. representatives, F. J. Twiss (Wellington), accountant in the Mental Hospitals Department, who served in the Light .Trench Moxtar Battery; Robert Lepper (Invercargill), who served with the 1st Battalion of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade and was awarded the D.O.M., E. T. Tirikatene, M.P. (Southern Maori) who went Overseas with the 2nd Maori Contingent and served with the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion. Territorials: G, A. Parsons (Rangiora), of the 1st Battalion Canterbury Regiment; H. Blythe (Paeroa), of the 1st Battalion Hauraki Regiment} H. F. Davis (Auckland), of the Northern Depot, New Ze-iland A'rmy Service Corps. Permanent Staff: Staff Sergeant-Major L. R. Stichbury, of the New Zealand Permanent Staff, Gisborne. Nursing Division; Miss Maud Mitchell, A.R.R.C. (Titahi B'ay). Most of these new additions together with the reinaining members of the contingent of 50 are in Trentham. Camp.