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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1943, Page 4

“Dorchester is our market town — eight miles from our village, with a population of ten thousand. It was old when the Romans came. The largest prehistoric earthwork in England is just outside the line of the Roman Wall. In 1940 we all went through an experience which has left an indelible mark on us. Nothing like it happened in .the last war, and nothing like it had happened in a hundred years. Our village was settled. We had our rights of way, our fields, our gardens, our parish council. We lived freely within the law our fathers had made. It had always been so for a thousand years. Then in 1940 we awoke suddenly to the knowledge that it was possible for a foreigner to stand in the King's Highway, not as a guest, not as a prisoner, but as a master. We saw our fields for the first time because we knew we might be seeing them for the last time. We shall never see them again carelessly as we did before 1940."—Ralph Wightman, a speaker in the 8.'8.C. short wave series “From All Over Britain.”