HOME GUARD & ARMY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 April 1942, Page 4

HOME GUARD & ARMY

TEST OF COMMUNICATIONS LARGE SCALE OPERATIONS. TO BE CARRIED OUT AT WEEKEND (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Designed to test communications in the Central Military District, certain exercises which will not involve the large-scale movement of troops, will be carried out during the weekend by the mobilised Army units.and Home Guard personnel acting in conjunction for the first time. Besides being a test of communications, in which the most important phases of the operations will fall on headquarters staffs and the signals division, it will be a snap mobilisation of the Home Guard, of which there are many battalions, over the whole military district, whi,ch extends from Hicks Bay down to Palliser Bay, and across the North Island roughly from Wairoa, on the East Coast, to Waitara, in Taranaki. Sealed orders, to be opened as the exercises develop, are in the possession of Home Guard commanders, whose units will be required to assemble ready to man war stations. The activities to be embarked on beyond that will be left to the discretion of the Home Guard commanders, many of whom intend to follow up the mobilisation by proceeding to war stations and carrying out plans of their own for manoeuvres.