DAY’S HOLIDAY
HOME SERVICE TROOPS ONE DAY’S LEAVE GIVEN SECOND ECHELON PROVISION (By Teleeranh.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Tuesday Arrangements for the granting of holiday leave to soldiers on home service were announced this evening by the Minister of Defence, the Hon. F. Jones. The Minister said that members of mobilised units of the Territorial Force and guards and coast-watching detachments were to be granted 24 hours’ holiday leave on Christmas Day, Boxing Day or New Year’s Day. Because of the necessity for such units to be ready to carry out their normal duties it would not be possible to arrange for the personnel to be given extended Christmas or New Year leave. Members of the second echelon of the Special Force may be given , leave from December 22 to January 1 3, said Mr Jones. If, on the other j hand, the men desire to remain in j camps they may do so. Members of I the Maori Battalion may be given j leave on the same conditions as those ; applying to the second echelon. Mr Jones said that in all the cases 1 mentioned it must be distinctly j ■understood that any travelling on leave would be at the expense of the individual concerned. No travelling warrants for boat or rail would be granted, but advantage might be taken of concession fares granted to troops.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20986, 13 December 1939, Page 14
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225DAY’S HOLIDAY Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20986, 13 December 1939, Page 14
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