LABOUR BATTALIONS
DEFENCE OF QUEENSLAND CANEGROWERS' SUGGESTION A suggestion that labour battalions be formed to assist in the defence. of North Quensland has been made to the State Premier, Mr Forgan Smith, by the Queensland Cane.growers' Council. The whole of the available resources —manpower, ma-
chinery and transport—oi' the sugar industry have been offered for any task they might be called upon to perform. The 1 secretary of the Canegrowers' I Council, Mr R. Muir, told the Government that he thought the idea could be developed more quickly if the Queensland Government set up organisations for the creation of labour battalions. A sugar battalion could then be formed and run through the existing highly eH'icicnt canegrowers' organisations, with the Canegrowers' Council as the controlling bod}*. A census of the man and woman power of each sugar-cane farm in Queensland is being taken by the council. A suggestion also has been'made to form a Irishmen's light horse battalion in Queensland as a .supplementary force for guerilla wari'an-.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 90, 12 August 1942, Page 6
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166LABOUR BATTALIONS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 90, 12 August 1942, Page 6
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