ON GUARD!
WOMAN WITH A GUN. MUNITION WORKS STORY. With a range-finder, three men were making a survey of land near a Melbourne munitions factory recently when they were startled by:— "Get out of this. You can't take pictures with fancy cameras here." Il was a woman. She brandished a shotgun. "Get going." she said. "But . . .” said the men. "Get along." the woman said, and raised the gun. They were forced to enter their motor car and leave. Soon afterward the car was stopped by a police patrol. The woman had telephoned the police after seeing the suspects off the premises. They satisfied the patrol that they were what they claimed to be —high officials of the Defence and Supply Departments! The woman received a letier from the Minister of Supply 'Mr Casey congratulating her on her bravery and initiative. The letter was writ-' ten at the instigation of one of the “suspects.” There's one more point to the story. The shotgun had no triggers and only half a stock.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 December 1939, Page 7
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170ON GUARD! Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 December 1939, Page 7
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