AWAKE NEW ZEALAND!

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 43, 22 April 1942, Page 4

AWAKE NEW ZEALAND!

FURTHER publicity from the 'Awake N-?w Zealand' Campaigners with headquarters in Hamilton has reached us* Hitherto we have withheld the release of copy until such time as some local organisation was ready ami willing to actively sponsor its well being. So far little has been done apart from isolated instances in the making of arms and the calling of combined meetings between town and country representatives. The Awake New Zealand Campaign is bent upon enlisting the efforts of the whole, of the community— firstly by public meeting and secondly by organised and intelligent effort towards the making of equipment a.nd arms. The objects are: (1) To endeavour to awaken the spiritual consciousness of the people. (2) To rouse the public and the Government to the urgent necessity for a total war effort, involving among other things, every able bodied man being trained to fight, and all the factoiies and workshops of the country being used to .their fullest capacity in producing the arms, ammunition and equipment required.. (3) To urge or. the people the need for immediate individual action without waiting for Government compulsion as the success of any defence effort made by the Government must rest finally on the offensive spirit o£ the people themse Mes. (4) To obtain for the Home Guard Unit in each district such equipment as the resources of the district can supply. A total war effort can mean only one thing and that is the complete harnessing of all the physical resources of the Dominion —that is man power, equipment, etc., together with a spiritual awakening of the people and the abolishing of every weakness, individual or national, which in any way retards our war effort. So great has been the response to the suggestions contained in the original booklet "Sound the Tocsin," that assurances have received from all over Nevr Zealand that organisations will be formed fcr the purpose of bringing before the proper authorities and the people of the country, the need for immediate action. Now it is Whakatane's turn to become seized' with the full seriousness of the situation.