DEFENDING N.Z.
j SHOULD HAVE BEEN READY REPETITION OF 1914? "We must be am ilitary nation, otherwise we shall fail; we are a small! nation and we must be prepared to defend ourselves," said the president of the Hastings branch of the Returned Soldiers' Association, Mr P. Jfi. Priest, at the annual meeting. "We had this hurry in-1914, and 'it is only by the grace, of God and good' luck that we got through/' declared Mr Priest. "But how much better it would have been if the Empire had been ready. How many lives would have been saved
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 306, 16 May 1941, Page 2
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98DEFENDING N.Z. Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 306, 16 May 1941, Page 2
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