A proposal which he said might have some military usefulness was made by the Rev. Jasper Calder in the course of his sermon at the Church of the Epiphany, Auckland. This was that on some pre-arranged night the towns and countryside of the Dominion should be “blacked out” for half an hour ahd aeroplanes from the various air stations should be put in the air to see just how visible points of interest to an invader would be. Mr Calder said the Dominion was so far from the seat of the present European trouble that the people hero perhaps did not realise what the people of England were suffering and how calmly they were facing the crisis. Such an experiment would not only be very impressive, but it might produce a further 1000 territorial recruits within the following few days.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 September 1939, Page 3
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