HOME GUARD
9 HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN ENROLLED •VOLUNTEERS STILL TO BE ACCEPTED. MINISTER BEARS WITNESS TO ENTHUSIASM. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. New Zealand now has a hundred thousand Home guardsmen, the figure set as the original aim when the campaign was inaugurated five months ago by the Minister of National Service (Mr Semple). The Minister said the organisation would continue to take all men who volunteered. He was most impressed with the remarkable enthusiasm of the men. There was nothing that they would not do. In the country districts, the enthusiasm was amazing. For a lime the cities had lagged behind, but in recent weeks they too had come up to scratch. After referring to the work of the womens organisations and the Emergency Precautions scheme, the Minister said: “New Zealand is organised today as it has never been before in its history. There is, of course, still a lot of finishing work to be done, for instance the men of the Home Guard have yet to receive their equipment, but preparations to that end are iii hand. There is a little impatience on the part of some people, but I want them to appreciate the fact that difficulties arc something over which wc have no control. These difficulties will disappear in duo course and I ask those people to have patience and faith. The Women’s Auxiliary will work in with both the Home Guard and the E.P.S. and many channels of activity are now open to women, so that they may ease the strain on man-power very materially. In Britain, women arc doing many kinds of jobs to ease the strain on manpower and doing them with the highest degree of efficiency. What the women of Britain can do, the girls of this country can and will do equally well, for they arc made of the same stuff.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 April 1941, Page 6
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311HOME GUARD Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 April 1941, Page 6
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