RECRUITING APPEAL
MADE BY THE MAYOR OF AUCKLAND. CITY LAGGING BEHIND OTHER AREAS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. April 12. A campaign for the enlistment of 1000 volunteers between the ages of 18 and 35 years was announced by the Mayor, Sir Ernest Davis, tonight. “The plan results from the discovery that Auckland’s claim to leadership has been severely dented by its apathetic attitude toward recruiting in the Territorial army," said the Mavor “It was humiliating to find that, whereas other centres and country districts adjacent to the city had provided full-strength peace establishments, the city area was conspicuously and stubbornly lagging behind to what appeared to him an almost, incredible degree of undermanning. The defection must be remedied. He had been informed that a brigade of 7000 trained men in Auckland province could successfully withstand the onslaught of an invading division of 20.000. and that 1000 trained men I would be worth 100 times their number of untrained men.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 April 1939, Page 7
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159RECRUITING APPEAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 April 1939, Page 7
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