SHIRKING DUTY
MEN WHO CONSIDER DONATION IS LIMIT TO WAR SACRIFICE NEED FOR PERSONAL SERVICE
Strong words were used by the Hon.-'W. Perry, M.L.C., Dominion president of the Returned Soldiers' Association, in making an appeal for a better response than has been made to date by those eligible to join the. Home Guard. "Those who fought in 1914-18," Mr Pe(rry> ; said, "purchased national security with their blood and suffering and the tears of agony of their womenfolk. Those of that generation and some of the one that folowed, for whom they purchased it for too great a price, sold it for a miserable pot of pacifism. Let those who sold national security show now that they are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices to re-purchase it at a miich higher price than they- sold it for.'* To win this war the British Empire must make an effort greater than . any other nation had ever made any greater, perhaps, than the sum of all the struggles of all the nations continued Mr Perry. Yet there were thousands of men in New Zealand who had not given one-half of their time to the Avar effort. "Do you who watched them go away and who watched them come back to begin life all over again expect old soldiers of the last war to do the job for you all over again?" Mr Perry asked. ■"'■Let me remind you that when, the late Prime Minister, Mr Sayag-ei, called for volun-' teers for the National Reserve in May, 1939, by far the greatest sponsc came from these old soldiers The response from the rest of the male population was poor." There: ar<J now another chance. Those who were eligible and fit, and who did nob Join-the Home Guard were lacking in patriotism. Duty in this war did not end with a donation to provide patriotic funds or the War Elxpenses Account. "Your duty," Mr Perry concluded, "is also one of personal service for the defence of your inheritance. If you are not prepared to give) it, i then God help New Zealand, for you will have proved unworthy of your heritage..'"
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 247, 9 December 1940, Page 5
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