ALL THAT MATTERS
NEED OF TRULY NATIONAL WAR EFFORT.
MR H. MORRISON’S ADVOCACY.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
WANGANUI, May 23.
“Today is the day we should make sacrifices. It doesn’t matter a tinker’s curse if we have any money when the war is over. We want this country mobilised.” In these words Mr Hugh Morrison, Wairarapa, who presided at the Wellington interprovincial conference of the Farmers’ Union, prefaced an appeal for the formation of a national Government in order to secure New Zealand’s maximum war effort.
Farmers, trade unionists and others, he said, should get together in order to bring about the formation of a truly national Government. New Zealand was proud of the response made by its young men who had gone overseas, and it had every confidence in them when put to the test, but, if the war was to be won. united action was needed at home.
“I think the first thing we should do is to mobilise the manpower of the Dominion,” said Mr Morrison. “We should have conscription, and if needs be, conscription of wealth. ’
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 May 1940, Page 4
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