HOME GUARD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1941, Page 7

HOME GUARD

MASTERTON BATTALION ROUTINE ORDERS. PARADE TOMORROW MORNING. Battalion headquarters and A and C companies of the Masterton Battalion of the Home Guard will parade tomorrow at their respective drill halls at 8.0 a.m. The men will march to the Hood Aerodrome to the Pipe Band, which will parade at the Municipal Hall at 8.0 a.m. The parade will be held wet or fine. Company commanders will have alternative programmes ready in case of rain. Signallers will parade at the Solway Showgrounds, main entrance, at 8.15 a.m. On Thursday, A Company will parade at the Drill Hall and C Company at the Municipal Hall at 7.0 p.m. (other units as arranged by unit commanders). Classes next week.—Officers: Tuesday next at Municipal Hall at 7.30 pm. Lieut. Ball will lecture on transport. N.C.O.’s: Tuesday, at Municipal Hall at 7.0 p.m. Machine gun specialist from Trentham Army School will demonstrate Bron Gun. P.T.: Tuesday, at College Assembly Hall at 7.0 p.m. Signallers: Parades as arranged by signal officer. Ambulance: Country details, Tuesday, at St. John’s Rooms at 7.0 p.m. Town details: Thursday at 7.0 p.m. A Company commander will supply a detail, of approximately 40 men to parade at Malmo’s Garage. Chapel Street, on Thursday at 7.15 p.m. for range practice, rifle platoon to make arrangements and supervise and arrange for coaches. In response to his Majesty’s request a special Church Parade of A and C and Headquarters companies will be held on Sunday, September 7. The men will parade at their respective drill halls at 9.30 a.m. and march to the Masterton Park to the Pipe Band for the service starting at 10 a.m, and concluding at 10.30 a.m., to enable men to attend their own churches after the parade. Country units wishing to join in the parade are to notify Battalion Headquarters and make arrangements accordingly. Otherwise country companies are to make own. arrangements at local churches. The Tinui unit will attend a church parade at Tinui at 2.15 p.m. and the Wainuioru unit a church parade at the local woolshed at 3.0 p.m. Programme of training for month of September—Week night parades: Musketry, range practice, bayonet fighting, route marches, sand table lectures on platoon tactics, sentry posting. Physical training for half hour at each parade. Sunday parades: Bomb throwing, patrols,, company drill and physical training. N.C.O. classes: Bayonet fighting, musketry, bombing, platoon tactics. map reading, Bren Gun. Transfers, promotions and appointments, etc.: Mr S. Gilman to be Second in Command Battalion. Owing to ill health Lieut. Ross relinquishes position of Quartermaster. Lieut. F. C. Brockett to be Battalion Quartermaster. Lieut. A. O. Jones to be Commander C Company. Marched in: Thirteen recruits transferred from E.P.S. Marched out: Lieut. R. Lee to area appointment