FORESTRY CORPS
GOOD RESPONSE IN CANADA. OTTAWA. The Canadian Forestry Corps has been organised for service overseas, according to an announcement by the Department of National Defence. Although recruiting for the authorised 20 companies was only started on July 15, the whole Corps with the exception of two or three companies, which did nbt/4'eCeive mobilisation orders until later, was recruited in the average time of approximately three weeks. The majority of these companies are at present in central training camp undergoing intensive military training. The men have been selected largely from the various lumber and pulp and paper companies throughout the country, and although the Corps is comprised largely of technical men experienced and skilled in this type of work, it is to be noted that the Corps is distinctly a combatant unit equipped and trained to take its place in any military operation to which it might be called,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 December 1940, Page 8
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150FORESTRY CORPS Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 December 1940, Page 8
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