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LARGE SCALE EXERCISES OF NEW ZEALAND FORCES. IN INTERESTS OF CIVILIAN PROPERTY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Large-scale exercises involving all arms of the division of the New Zealand forces over a wide area in the central and western portions of the North Island have been postponed for a few weeks because of the heavy rain which has made the ground sodden. The decision to postpone the exercises, an army authority states, has been made entirely in the interests of the civilian property and not because of dispomforts which might have ensued for soldiers engaged who, he said, were prepared to fight in any weather the country could produce. They had spent months in careful preparation and had been well trained in the role they were to undertake, and, consequently, were disappointed at the postponement. However, as the exercises would involve the movement of tanks, tank transports, trucks and other heavy vehicles, the army could have got through only at a heavy cost to the roads.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 February 1943, Page 4
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168POSTPONED Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 February 1943, Page 4
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