BE PREPARED

Hokitika Guardian, 2 March 1933, Page 8

BE PREPARED

WARNING OF FUTURE HOSTILITIES.

ADDRESS TO REGIMENT

CHRISTCHURCH, March 1

“We have, not done with wars, the last world war has not yet been fought with human nature what it is,', and while the foreign policies of the nations are what they are.” The statement was made last evening by Captain 0. F. Raker, feenior Company Commander of the Canterbury Regiment, speaking at. a smoke concert held to mark the sixty-seventh anniversary of, the regiment; , “There will continue to be wars,” said Captain. Baker, “and the regiment must always be ready to do its job, of work, must; always be ready, jf needs-be, to take its place in the filing line, if called upon by the Mother Country. Thanks to the territorial system of. training then ,in force , the regiment Was ready to take, its place when the, Great,War broke out in 1914, and our aim must be..bo keep it up to the same pitch of efficiency in ; case it shoold ever be wanted in the future.

“1 consider that a man cannot help but benefit and be a better man, both physically and morally, by -being a member of the regiment. It lias been proved; time and time again that friendships and associations made during service in the regiment have survived to the end. This was specially brought out during the Great War. Some of the besij I have were started overseas.

“With the present advances in science in the way cf aircraft, gas, television, radio and the hundred and one other modern inventions ,the regiment which isi not absolutely trained to the last minute cannot hope to survive. Therefore it behoves us all to know our jobs And each and every one to carry out in its widest sense the spirit of our motto, Ake Alee E-iu Kalia (w«i will fight on for ever and fiver). 5 ’