BOUND FOR CAMP

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24414, 27 September 1940, Page 4

BOUND FOR CAMP

OTAGO TERRITORIALS LEAVING FOR BURNHAM ON MONDAY ESTABLISHMENT OF LOCAL CAMPS About 700 Otago Territorials will leave by two special trains on Monday morning for Burnham. where they will go under canvas for intensive training. Yesterday an advance party o.c seven officers and about 40 men travelled to Burnham to get everything in readiness for the main body of men on Monday. The Territorials will be under canvas at Burnham for about two months, but it is not yet known where they will carry out their third month of training, as Burnham is not suitable for tactical manoeuvres. Two special trains will convey the men north on Monday morning. There will be approximately 550 officers and men of the Otago Regiment and about 150 officers and men of the Dunedin Company of the New Zealand Scottish Regiment going north. The trains will depart at 9.5 and 10.50. and the station platform will be barricaded until the men are entrained. A short time will then be given relatives and friends to make their farewells, but it would be advisable that all au revoirs were said prior to the men going on to the platform. There will be a large number of Territorials in camp at Burnham. and, in fact, the total will be practically equal to thj number in training at Burnham for overseas service. Besides the Otago units, there will be the Nelson Regiment, the Christchurch Scottish Company, a company of engineers, and a company of signallers. On the same day as these men leave for the north, other Territorial units will be arriving at Dunedin for the two camps that are to be held in the district. The Ist Battalion Southland Regiment, will mobilise at Forbury Park for three months' intensive training, and its strength will be 36 officers, 46 warrant officers and sergeants, and 691 other ranks. The 3rd Field Regiment, New Zealand Artillery, will go into camp at Wingatui Racecourse at the beginning of the week. It comprises the 3rd Field Battery. Dunedin, and the sth Field Battery, Christchurch. and its total strength will be 588 all ranks. The 3rd Battery has nearly completed its month's training at the Central Battery and Tahuna Park, and good work has been carried out in the past few weeks.