300 MEN FROM BALLOT
TARANAKI REQUIREMENT 800 TO GO INTO CAMP MEDICAL OFFICER CHOSEN Approximately 300 men will be required from the ballot to fi.ll vacancies in the Taranaki Regiment. An indication of this was given when the Army Department at New Plymouth stated yesterday that the present strength of the regiment was about 500. It had been previously stated that about 800 would go into camp at Waverley. It is understood that Queen Alexandra's M.ounted Rifles and the Manawatu Mounted Rifles are much nearer full strength. When Dr. W. P. P. Gordon enters camp at Waverley with the Taranaki Regiment next week his place at Stratford will be taken by a woman doctor, Dr. Lilian Hansen, who was in Norway when the Nazis invaded Scandinavia. She arrived back in New Zealand only five days ago. Hearing of the emergency created by Dr. Gordon agreeing to the request of the Army Department to enter camp she immediately consented to relieve. Dr. Hansen has a number of friends in Taranaki and a sister, Nurse Linda Hansen, was on the staff of a private hospital at Stratford for three years. 4
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 September 1940, Page 6
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189300 MEN FROM BALLOT Taranaki Daily News, 26 September 1940, Page 6
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