TRUCK DRIVERS
NEEDED FOR COAST DEFENCE PURPOSES. APPEAL FOR WAIRARAPA MEN. The Wairarapa Company of the Lines of Communication urgently requests drivers to join the company. Application should be made to the headquarters, Mr D. B. Curry, A.M.P. Buildings, Perry Street, Masterton, or to any carrier throughout the Wairarapa. In an appeal to truck drivers and owners to give essential help, the Minister of Transport (Mr Semple) stressed the need for fast transport to counter attack and asked drivers to join the Lines of Communication Motor Transport companies and owners to make vehicles available. “Mobility, extreme mobility, is an • essential of our defence plans,” Mr Semple said. “We have a long coast line to protect and we must be able to throw into any area in the shortest possible time the armed forces required to meet an attack. Speed of transport for men and supplies is essential.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 December 1941, Page 5
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147TRUCK DRIVERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 December 1941, Page 5
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