RALLY TO THE HORSE GUARD

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 191, 10 December 1941, Page 4

RALLY TO THE HORSE GUARD

RECRUITS are urgently needed to swell the ranks of the local Home Guard and the time for action in training and equipping oneself for the possible defence of this country is at hand. It becomes not merely a duty now but a compelling necessity to enroll and link up with any of the existing units, Mounted Guard,, Trench Mortar Company, Signallers, Engineers, Infantry or Ambulance. All men who are ready and willing to prove themselves loyal and deserving citizens of God's Own Country are urged to join up now. Equipment and arms are ready in Whakatane; more will arrive within twenty-four hours. Whakatane as a coastal town has been given a definite duty to perform and more men are. needed to do it. Who will hang back now? The Home Guard orderly room is open for enlistments on Wednesday evening from 6.30 to 7.30 p.m. and on Thursday evening from 7 till 9p.m. Any of the following officers will be willing to take the names of recruits, Company Command G. Otley, Adjutant Whitworth,, Company Commander R. C. Wilson and Second in Command (Coy) C. Armstrong. "Your country needs you to-day more urgently than ever before," reads a recent circular. Whakatane and the surrounding district has already achieved a great record in supplying men for military service abroad. In furnishing a Home Guard of the required proportions it can be. relied upon to do likewise.