RECRUITS LEAVE
WAIRARAPA DRAFT FOR FOURTH REINFORCEMENTS. HUNDRED MEN FROM DISTRICT. Fifty-five recruits left Masterton this afternoon by the 2.0 p.m. mail train, en route to Trentham Camp as members of the Fourth Reinforcements. Headed by the Wairarapa College Pipe Band/, and with the Mayor, Mr T. Jordan, leading them, the recruits marched from the Drill Hall to the station. Many citizens watched their departure from town and also from the station, where a party of Maoris performed a haka. Other men joining the train at stations en route brought the total strength of the Wairarapa draft to 100, the numbers from the respective centres being: —Masterton, 55; Eketahuna, 14; Featherston 13; Carterton, 14; Greytown, 4. The draft was in charge of Lieutenant G. Jackson.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 October 1940, Page 6
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125RECRUITS LEAVE Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 October 1940, Page 6
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