TEMPORARY CAMPS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 245, 13 September 1940, Page 6

TEMPORARY CAMPS

TRAINING OF TROOPS ON EOXTON RACECOURSE Showgrounds and racecourses have been requisitioned by the Army Department for tlie training of Territorial battalions, consequent on delay in the finishing of the new Waiourn military camp. The Wanganui racecourse is already in use as a camp, and the Waverley and Foxton courses, according to information issued in Wanganui, are to be taken over, also the Dannevirke Showgrounds. When tho First Battalion Wellington Regiment (City of Wellington’s Own), commanded by LieutenantColonel A. L- George, marches out from the Wanganui racecourse, at the end of the month, the Wellington West Coast Regiment, commanded bv Lieu-tenant-Colonel D. A. C. Lilburne, E.D., will march in. The 11th Taranaki Regiment is to occupy the Waverley racecourse and the Foxton racecourse is to be used by the Bth Medium Battery, New Zealand Field Artillery, the 2nd Field Regiment of the New Zealand Field Artillery and the 2nd Field Company of the New Zealand Engineers. The Dannevirke Showgrounds have been granted for use by the military authorities and it is presumed that it will be occupied by the First Hawke’s Bay Regiment, which was to have gone to Wanganui. According to statements made by the military authorities these temporary camps are to be used until such time as Waiouru is ready, which is expected to be a month to six weeks later than October 1, the date planned.

On this information, indications are that the unit now training in Palmerston North, F Troop of the 4th Field Battery, a unit of the 2nd Field Regiment, will shortly be transferred to Foxton.