MAYOR OF CHRISTCHURCH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 May 1940, Page 6

MAYOR OF CHRISTCHURCH

READY TO PROCEED OVERSEAS ON ACTIVE SERVICE. ENLISTS THIS MORNING. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. This Day. Among this morning’s enlistments was the Mayor of Christchurch, Mr R. M. MacFarlane, M.P.. who was a caller at the recruiting depot, in Cathedral Square. Mr MacFarlane, who is the member of Parliament for Christchurch South, is married, is 39 years of age, and has an eight months old daughter. Commenting on' his decision to enlist, the Mayor said he was prepared and had been prepared for a considerable time to take part in any military capacity in which he might be called on to serve, even to going overseas. Since the beginning of the war, however, he had been devoting all the time he could possibly spare to furthering the necessary organisation of war work and the Canterbury Provincial Patriotic Fund in particular. He now felt that the time had arrived, in view of the manner in which the war situation had developed, when anyone who could render service, even to the extent of going overseas, should come forward. On the-next occasion on which he had the opportunity of delivering a public address he would make some further comment on the war situation and his own attitude. As a final comment he said he was prepared to take on anything and to go anywhere.