APPEAL FOR MEN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 February 1940, Page 5

APPEAL FOR MEN

RECRUITING & GENERAL WAR EFFORT DEPUTY-PRIME MINISTER’S AIR TOUR. MEETINGS TO BE ADDRESSED IN MANY CENTRES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Arrangements are being made for a .series of recruiting and war effort mass meetings to be addressed by the Deputy-Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, from March 4 to March Hi. Mr Fraser’s lour, which will be carried out mainly by aeroplane, Will include meetings in places from Invercargill in the south to AVhangarei in the north. The proposed itinerary does not include Masterton or other East Coast centres. The organising work is being done by the National Recruiting Committee in conjunction with the local committees and local bodies. In addition to the Deputy-Prime Minister there will be local speakers, including the local members of Parliament.

The main object of the tour is to inaugurate a great co-operative campaign on behalf of New Zealand’s war effort, in which the Government, members of Parliament —Labour, Nationalist and Independent—local bodies, local recruiting committees and the public generally, will participate. Mr Fraser will deal at the meetings with the issues at stake in the conflict with Nazi Germany, and will emphasise the grave danger in which New Zealand stands, along with the other nations of the British Commonwealth, unless Germany is defeated. In addition to stressing the need for recruits, Mr Fraser will urge all to help in the war effort, according to their opportunities.

Major-General J. E. Duigan, Chief of the General Staff, will accompany the Deputy-Prime Minister and will speak at all meetings. Enthusiastic efforts are being made in the towns and districts to be visited to ensure that the meetings will have record attendances. Those interested are determined to do everything possible to assist New Zealand’s part in the word struggle for democracy and freedom, and to maintain the Dominion’s position as an integral part of the British Commonwealth of Nations, free from all fear of foreign domination.