GOING INTO CAMP

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 October 1940, Page 6

GOING INTO CAMP

MAYOR OF CHRISTCHURCH RELEASED BY MAN-POWER COMMITTEE. SUGGESTION TO INTERJECTORS AT MEETING. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The Mayor, Mr R. M. MacFarlane, M.P., has been released from his duties by the Man-Power Committee and will be available early in January to go into camp with reinforcements for the Expeditionary Force. The Mayor stated that he personally had never made any representations to the Man-Power Committee to be released from service after his enlistment. He took no steps whatever for any appeal on his own behalf. The only consultations he had had with the committee were made with a view to his being released for overseas service. The committee, at its meeting last week, had agreed to release him at the end of three months, which would be early in January. A hint that he would be going into camp was given by the Mayor at last night’s public meeting concerning the Home Guard, which was addressed by the Minister of National Service (Mr. Semple). After he had been interrupted by members of the audience who belonged a section which supplied frequent interjections throughout the meeting, the Mayor said that if those who had interrupted him met him at a later stage, he would be be only too glad to take them into camp with him for the reinforcements. ’