HOME GUARD MATTERS
Sir, —"Citizen" writes to congratulate an .old soidiev, and states that it should be an example to other residents who have not yet enrolled in the Home Guard. He adds let them all come along and do their "bit." If history is to repeat itself again, it would be well, for "Citizen," in fact all members ofsthe Home Guard, to see that the rankjipd file are not going to be tieated "to sustenance and relief pay, when the thousands of old soldiers return to the labour market, after doing their "bit." The old soldiers job was to do and die* and not ask the reason why, bat after a recent diet on sustenance or relief work, it is up to these old. soldiers to set up a special unit of the Home Guard to investigate alt such important matters, which are so easily forgotten, when this war business is over. One does not have to have a long memory to remember that thousands of old soldiers were "lumping tliei* swags," or seeking sustenance or relief after the last war,, so in view of that fact, it would be wise for the Home Guard to gnkrd homas against Mother Hubbard and crushing taxa(Continued foot of previous column*
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 274, 21 February 1941, Page 4
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209HOME GUARD MATTERS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 274, 21 February 1941, Page 4
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