MEN FOR CAMP

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21231, 30 September 1940, Page 8

MEN FOR CAMP

NEARLY 1000 IN WEEK WAIKATO TROOPS TO LEAVE BUSY WEEK OF ENCAMPING During the week the largest troop movements in the Waikato district since the outbreak of war will occur, when nearly 1000 civilians will change their garb to khaki. More than 600 of these men will be mobilised in the next few days as recruits in the Fourth Reinforcements of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force to commence their training before proceeding on overseas active service. The other troops to be mobilised this week are for territorial service. The troop movements will commence tomorrow when about 350 members of the Ist Battalion, 16th Waikato Regiment, will enter camp at the Cambridge racecourse for a period of intensive training under the Government’s home defence scheme. A special train for these men will leave Taumarunui at 6.50 a.m. tomorrow, Ongarue at 7.40 a.m., Te Kuiti at 8.45 a.m., Hangatiki at 9.40 a.m., Otorohanga at 9.45 a.m., Te Awamutu at 10.30 a.m. and Frankton Junction at 1.10 p.m. Men from Hamilton for this draft will parade at the Drill Hall at 12.30 p.m. before proceeding to the Hamilton Station to entrain about 1.15 p.m. for Cambridge. Fourth Reinforcements

Tomorrow night the first draft of recruits for the Fourth Reinforcements will leave for Burnham. Hamilton and Cambridge men in this draft will parade at the Drill Hall, Hamilton, at 7.30 p.m. At 10.30 p.m. they will attend a special entertainment arranged for them in the Bledisloe Hall by the Hamilton Women’s Patriotic Committee, At 2.7 a.m. on Wednesday morning they will leave for the south by a special train. On Wednesday men for Trentham Camp will parade at Hamilton at 7.30 p.m. and leave at 8.43 p.m. from Frankton Junction for the south. On Thursday the biggest draft to have left for camp from Hamilton since the outbreak of war will depart. Numbering about 178, they are Hamiltton and Cambridge recruits for the Papakura and Hopu Hopu mobilisailton and Cambridge recruits for the Drill Hall at 10.30 a.m. and march to the Hamilton station to entrain at 11.40 a.m.