SCOTTISH REGIMENT
SECOND BATTALION DECIDED SELECTION OF OFFICERS (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WANGANUI, Friday In accordance with the expansion of the Territorial Force in New Zealand it has been decided to form another battalion of the Scottish Regiment. The existing battalion has detachments in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin, and these are in camp undergoing three months’ training. Under the new organisation detachments in the North Island will form the nucleus of the First Battalion, and those in the South Island the nucleus of the second.
Officers and N.C.O.’s already in training with the Scottish Regiment are expected to be selected to fill vacancies in trained personnel required for the new units, the rank and file of which will be found from balloted men. Men of Scottish descent are expected to be given preference in selection for the regiment. Selected officers and N.C.O.’s of A Company (Wellington), in training in Wanganui, will undergo a special course of instruction in* Wellington to qualify them for the training of the new Company early next year.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21242, 12 October 1940, Page 9
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172SCOTTISH REGIMENT Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21242, 12 October 1940, Page 9
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