SCOTS REGIMENT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 116, 2 June 1937, Page 7

SCOTS REGIMENT

Sydney Organisation Has Big Waiting-List Since last year Sydney has boasted its own Scottish regiment, and details of the organisation were furnished by one of the founders of the regiment, Captain J. B. Patrick, of Sydney, who is president of the Highland Society in that city. He recently visited Christchurch. Captain Patrick said that when the proposal to form the regiment wias made it met with enthusiastic support from citizens of Scottish descent in Sydney, A Scotsman by birth, Captain Patrick, as president of the Highland Society, did all in his power to further the scheme, with most satisfactory results. "They say Scottish people are close," : he remarked with a smile, "but when I - went out to collect money to form tho regiment and buy uniforms, as the Government would not assist, etach of the first eleven Scotsmen I called on gavo me £100. Altogether we collected £3600. "Then to cap things, Lord Forteviot^ who was a colonel in the Black Watch( heard of our scheme, and from Scotland sent us out a full set of pipcs valued at £650." Captain Patrick added that his son wias a lieutenant in the regiment, which was affiliated to the Blqck Watch. To enter *the regftnent there was a fee of £2, but that did not deter Scottish Australians, for the regiment Was at its full strength of 550 and there was a big waiting list.