MORE PROMISING OUTLOOK.

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 226, 16 October 1940, Page 4

MORE PROMISING OUTLOOK.

THE words of confidence and encouragement by Mr.R. Sinel, Dominion organiser of the Home Guard movement, were like water on hungry soil and did much to reinstate the enthusiasm with which the scheme was first hailed in Whakatane. Mr. Sinel had a firm grasp of his subject and intimated that the organisation would run parellel to .various Emergency Precaution schemes which had been drawn u,p by local bodies throughout the Dominion. Hundreds of men are keen and willing to join up with the; Home Guard in this district where it is hoped to enlist ex-Diggers and others to the number of 800. These men are prepared to train just as soon as the military maahinery is ready to take them under its control and it is pleasing to note also that arrangements will be made to coincide the hours of training with those periods best suited to the individual in a district such as this. We hasten to endorse the remarks of the Dominion organised in stating that those who were not willing to give their services free in this respect were not worth having in the Guard. It is the least anyone of us who are unable to serve in the armed forces can do. The Home Guard movement as far as our own centre is concerned has taken a new lease of life and we hope that it will not. be long before active steps are being taken to commence local training and organisation.