Viewpoints On Forthcoming Referendum
• Training boys won't bring war any nearer. It will keep war away.—Mrs. W, J_. Polson, speaking at a public meeting on Thursday night. "» I will not ask you to take sifles, but merely ask you to please vote on the forthcoming referendum. We don't want a'referendum of 20 per . cent. of the people,, but a true picture pf what New-Zealand wants. — Mr. ,T. G. Vincent,' chairman- of directors of the Levin Dairy Com--pany, speaking at the annual meeting. 0 We have. had enou gh of sending our boys away in two wars untrained and ill-equipped. — Mrs, - W, J, Polson, speaking at Levin on Thursday night. . ' © The ramiflcations envisaged .shguld the vote go the wr'ong way are such that we cannot aft'ord to fcake any chances other thari an affirmative vote. — Mr. H. B. Burdekin, Mayor of Levin, at a public meeting on Tuesday. • Naturally one could not tell the people how to vote, but one could at least beg them to 'go to the polls and vote, and point .-out to them the desirability of compulsory military training. — Mr. N. M, Thomson, president of the Levin R.S.A., at a public meeting on Tuesday.
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Chronicle (Levin), 23 July 1949, Page 4
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