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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 27, 1940. 1801

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEpartment.

No. 1385.-The following Corps Orders providing for increased training for the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps are published for general information.

27th December, 1940.

N. L. SMITH,

Colonial Secretary.

HONG KONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS.

TRAINING CAMPS 1941.

1. Training Camps will be held in February and March, 1941, as follows:-

5TH CAMP.

Corps Artillery:

1st Battery.

4th

5th A.A. Battery.

6TH CAMP.

Corps Artillery:

2nd Battery.

3rd

י,

From P.M. Thursday, 6th February, to P. M. Thursday, 13th February, 1941.

From P. M. Friday, 14th February, to P. M. Friday, 21st February, 1941.

7TH CAMP.

No. 6 Company.

Field Company Engineers. Corps Signals.

Mobile Column.

From P.M. Thursday, 27th February, to P. M. Thursday, 6th March, 1941.

No. 2 Company.

No. 3

8TH CAMP.

No. 1 Company.

No. 4

No. 5

From P. M. Friday, 7th March,

to P. M. Friday, 11th March, 1941.

No. 7

MISCELLANEOUS.

Army Service Corps Company (Transport and Supply Sections) and Field

Ambulance--One week as detailed over the whole period.

Pay Section-As detailed by O.C. Pay Section.

2. Each camp lasts seven days and Officers and Volunteers are required to attend for the full period during which their units are under training unless special exemption has been obtained by themselves or their employers.

3. The very active co-operation of employers is requested so that each Officer and Volunteer may do his full time in camp, even if it means other employees doing extra work for that period. In this connexion it is pointed out that telephones are installed in each camp site for the use of Volunteers and it is preferable that a man be granted two or three hours leave from camp to attend any special business rather than he be exempted for several full days on the chance of his being required.

I. In special cases where exemption from a portion of the full period is sought employers should always request leave for the employees in writing, from the Com- mandant. Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, Volunteer Пleadquarters, Garden Road,

Employers are requested to make early applications for leave and not as has happened in many cases during the Autumn Camp 1940 apply at the last moment.

E. N. THURSBY, Captain,

Adjutant, II.KN,D.C.