FORESTRY UNIT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1940, Page 6

FORESTRY UNIT

A REQUIRED FOR SERVICE OVERSEAS AT INVITATION OF WAR OFFICE. APPEAL MADE FOR RECRUITS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Commissioner of State Forests, the Hon F. Langstone, states that the Government has accepted an invitation from the War Office to despatch overseas a forestry unit for logging and sawmilling. Recruitment has been placed in the hands of the State Forest Service and the conservators at Auckland, Rotorua, Palmerston North, Nelson, Hokitika, Christchurch and Invercargill will handle enlistments as a preliminary to the selection of a company, which would be, he hoped, truly representative of every district in New Zealand. The matter was specially urgent, as selected recruits would be called up early in February and immediate registration therefore was desirable. He was indebted to the Federated Sawmillers’ Association and to the president of the Timber Workers’ Union for support in making the appeal. The company would comprise six commissioned officers, 38 non-com-missioned officers and 147 other ranks. Preference would be given to single men between 21 and 35 who were physically fit for service in any part of the world but married men with not more than two children could be accepted. There were vacancies for all classes of workers, viz., bush fellers, track cutters, tramway hands, millwrights, sawyers, engineers, log measurers, tractor and lorry drivers and general logging and sawmill hands. Applicants are asked to state their present occupation and the one in which they are most skilled, e.g., tractor drivers should state whether they had Diesel as well as petrol experience, engineers their special qualifications, etc.