NATIONAL UNITY.
DEMAND AT AUCKLAND. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, June 4. The Town Hall was crowded to-day, when the second big rally was held under the auspices of the National Service Movement to urge complete political unity and the immediate intensification of the Dominion’s war effort. The speakers were Rev. Gladstone Hughes (Alodeiator of the Auckland Presbytery), Mr B. H. Kingston (chairman of the movement), Air C. J. Garland, and 'Miss Mary ./Wigley (chairman of the women’s' organisations associated with the movement), A resolution was carried unanimously as follows: "We, as loyal citizens of the Dominion, place on record our fixed determination to do all and give all to aid the Motherland, and we beg the Government to give a lead to our urgent appeal for the formation of a truly representative nonparty War Cabinet, and for the taking of such other steps as will tend to secure a speedy realisation of complete national unity and a’ maximum war effort on the part of all our people.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 158, 5 June 1940, Page 8
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