CORONATION PARTY

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 375, 5 March 1937, Page 6

CORONATION PARTY

EIGHT REPLACEMENTS

DEFENCE FORCES

As Result of Medical Examination.

Press Association —Copyright. Wellington, Last Night, Eight names of persons chosen by ballot for the Coronation contingent to replace thote who for medical rea-

sons were withdrawn from the contingent were announced to-night, following a tinal medical examination. There were seven rejections and since then another change, this one in the permanent staff representation, has been made for medical reasons. Those who enjoyed luck of ballot are: R.S.A, representatives: Messrs P. J. Twiss (Wellington), accountant of the Mental Hospitals Department, who served in the light trench mortar battery; Robert Lepper (Invercargill), who served with the Ist Battalion New Zealand Rifle Brigade and was awarded the D.C.M-. and E. T. Tirikatene. M.P. for Southern Maori, who vent overseas with the 2nd Maori contingent and served with the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion Territorials: Messrs G. A. Parsons (Rangiora), Ist Battalion Canterbury Regiment, H. Blythe (Paeroia). Ist Battalion Hauraki Regiment, and H. F. Ravis (Auckland), northern depot. New Zealand Army Service Corps. Permanent staff: Staff SergeantMajor L. R. Stitchbury, New ZealanTl Permanent Staff, Gisborne. Nursing division: Miss Maud Mitchell, A.R.R.C. (Tiabi Bay). Most of these new additions, together with remaining members of the contingent of 50, are in T’entbatn, camp. The contingent will sail i-'i'ne Rangitiki from Wellington at 3 p.m. on March 13.