HOME GUARD
NEEDED ON MAXIMUM FOOTING HON. R. SEMPLE'S APPEAL. RETURNED SOLDIERS GIVING FINE LEAD. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. This Day. “The rapid march of events in the Pacific, as well as further afield, indicates that there must be no time lost in bringing the home defence of New Zealand up to its maximum footing.” said the Minister of National Service (Mr Semple) in an interview today, when he again stressed the urgent need of recruits for the Home Guard. "If the rest of the people will follow the lead of the Returned Soldiers’ Association the job will be done.” he added. Everywhere that he had travelled in New Zealand, he said, he had found the returned soldiers keenly behind the Home Guard movement. Their offers of co-operation were encouraging and the discussions he had had with officials of the association had been most helpful. This was the spirit the Government wanted. The returned soldiers of Now Zealand would be the bulwarks of the Home Guard, he concluded.
At a " meeting to be held in the Masterton Y.M.C.A. building tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Mr J. Hay, of the National Service Department, is to speak on Home Guard organisation. Trades Unionists and all others interested are invited to attend.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 October 1940, Page 6
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