INTENSIVE TRAINING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 September 1940, Page 4

INTENSIVE TRAINING

HAWKE’S BAY REGIMENT. EVENING & SUNDAY PARADES. The Masterton Drill Hall was a scene of great activity last night when 90 Territorials of the Hawke’s Bay Regi-. ment attended the first parade under the scheme of intensive training. The men were equipped with all necessary gear and most of the evening was taken up with this work and with the reorganisation of the companies into small groups for intensive training. Captain R. J. Fowler, officer commanding. briefly addressed the men and outlined the scope of the training and emphasised its necessity. He urged them to maintain the high standard of efficiency which characterised the Regiment’s work. Under the scheme the men will attend parades on . two nights every week, either Monday and Tuesday or Wednesday and Thursday, for a period of three hours’ training and will attend a full day parade on Sundays. At present there are 8 N.C.O’s. at the Drill Hall to train the men, all of whom attend parades for four mornings and four nights and work full days on Fridays and Sundays. Many N.C.O’s. are attending courses of instruction at Trentham and the Winter Show buildings. Wellington. After this month’s training the men will go to Wanganui for two . months and then complete their training with a month at Waiouru.