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Major P. W. G. Spiers, O.C, Headquarters, 3rd Rifle Battalion, Burnham, is a well-known Dunedin banker, Major F. J. Gwilliam, Machine Gun Co., Ngaruawahia, was with the Auckland City Council before he went into camp. Major G. R. Lee was on the secretarial staff of the Timaru Harbour Board. Major A. A. Tennent, O.C. Field Am mi bulance at Burnham, was medical of the New Zealand Contingent which attended the Coronation of King George VI. Major H. G. Carruth, Second in Command, Divisional Cavalry at Négaruawahia, is a well known Whangarei solicitor. He was second in command of the Coronation Contingent. Major C. F. Rudd, O.C, 1st Field Co., Engineers, is an Auckland solicitor. Major A. J. Nicoll, the well-known Ashburton racehorse owner, will go into camp at Ngaruawahia with the Divisional Cavalry, 2nd Echelon. Major George Clifton, M.C., has been appointed officer commanding the Northern District School of Instruction at Narrow Neck, Auckland. Officers of the 2nd Echelon will be trained there. Captain D. Eckhofft, tormerly of the Public Trust, is now camp paymaster at Trentham, and one of the busiest men in that busy camp. He was an artillery officer in the last war. Captain G. F. Fussell, O.C, No. 3, Rifle Battalion, at Ngaruawahia, was on the staff of the Guardian Trust. Captain C. T. Kelleway left the staff of the Auckland Gas Company to go into camp. : Captain M. A, Bull, mathematics master at the Christchurch West High School, and lecturer at Canterbury College, will go into camp with the Field Artillery, 2nd Echelon, at Ngaruawahia. Lieut. D. J. Sweetzer, who was a member of the Coronation Contingent, was an executive of the North Island Motor Union. Lieut. A. R. Fitchett is a son of the Bishop of Dunedin, Lieut. W. Moffat, assistant master at the Christchurch Boys’ High School, will go into camp with the officers of the 2nd Echelon at Burnham, Lieut. R. R. Livingstone, who goes into camp with the 2nd Echelon at Burnham, is a son of H. G. Livingstone, of Christchurch. Niall Paterson, formerly insurance agent at Napier and now with the Advanced Training Company for officers at Trentham, is the only cadet N.C.O, who has commanded troops during a parade before the Governor General, This happened during a King’s Birthday parade at Auckland, when he was Battery Sergeant-Major at the Takapuna Grammar School,
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