PARADE ORDERS

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21228, 26 September 1940, Page 6

PARADE ORDERS

PLANS FOR ENCAMPING FOURTH REINFORCEMENTS RECRUITS FROM No. 4 AREA Next week more than 600 men from the No. 4 (Hamilton) military area will be mobilised with the Fourth Reinforcements of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force to train for overseas service. Parade details have been announced for these recruits. Those from Hamilton and Cambridge will be farewelled by the Mayor of Hamilton, Mr H. D. Caro. Next Tuesday night 39 recruits from Hamilton and Cambridge who have been drafted to the Burnham camp will parade at the Drill Hall, Hamilton, at 7.30 o’clock. Rolls will then be checked, after which the men will be dismissed until 10.30 p.m. At that time they are to reassemble at Bledisloe Hall, with their partners if they desire, and they will be entertained by the Hamilton Women’s Patriotic Committee. The entertainment will continue until 1.15 a.m. on Wednesday morning. The recruits will then proceed to Frankton Junction railway station to join the special troop train from the north, which is due at 2.7 a.m. on Wednesday. Men for Trentham Included in the men to be entertained on Tuesday night in the Bledj isloe Hall will be 22 recruits from Te Awamutu, 12 from Huntly, and 8 from the No. 2 (Paeroa) military area, who will have travelled to Hamilton to join the train at Frankton Junction. Men from the southern portion of the area will join the train down the line. For the Trentham camp 71 men will parade at the Drill Hall, Hamilton at 7.30 p.m. on Wednesday night. After being farewelled by the Mayor they will proceed direct to the Frankton station to entrain for the south in the special troop train from the north, which is due to depart at 8.43 p.m. Men from the southern portion of the area will join the train at stations south of Frankton. Recruits from the Hamilton and Cambridge portions of the area who are to train at the Papakura mobilisation camp number 151, and 26 are going to Hopu Hopu. These men will leave for camp on Thursday, parading at the Drill Hall, Hamilton, at 10.30 a.m. After being farewelled they will march to the Hamilton station under Major A. E. Gibbons.

They will ’leave by special train for their camps at 11.40 a.m. At the Frankton station these drafts will be joined by recruits from the southern portion of the No. 4 area who will have proceeded north by train.