E.P.S. UNITS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1941, Page 4

E.P.S. UNITS

APPEAL FOR MEN TO GET TOGETHER

DRILL AND FiRE-FIGHTING ’ SECTIONS.

AVENUE OPEN IN FIRST AID COURSE,

“My appeal to you, to those interested >'n the community, is to . pull together and not fight one another. See your way to help, not hinder. If the little dogs bark, let the caravan move on. Let us have suggestions by all means. Don't be nagging, pin-prick-ing, and fault-finding. Get together. That is my appeal to you. Get together.”

In these words Mr T. Jordan, Mayor and chairman of the E.P.S. Committee, appealed last night to the personnel of the E.P.S. for better support to the E.P.S. drill unit, which when it was first formed had a strength of over 70 but had now dwindled to 30 or 40.

The officer commanding the E.P.S. drill unit, Mi- A. Owen Jones, said that unless the unit could be brought up to company strength it was not worth while carrying on. There were 350 men enrolled in the E.P.’S. Mr Jordan said the same thing was apparent in the E.P.S. Volunteer Fire Unit. At. the first parade there was an attendance of eleven out of 25 or 26 men, and at the last parade there were only five or six. “What is the reason I am unable to say. It ought to be remedied,” said Mr Jordan.

An appeal was also made for members of the E.P.S. to take a course in first aid, which was of vital importance to the organisation and the community. It was 1 pointed out by Mr G. T. O’Hara Smith that the knowledge gained would be very useful. A course in first aid offered an avenue in which everybody who wanted to could do something.

A number of enrolments were made in the first aid class.