HOME GUARD
TO BE PLACED ON RESERVE. ANNOUNCEMENT BY MINISTER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.! WELLINGTON, This Day. An announcement that the Home Guard was to be placed on reserve as from the beginning of next year was made yesterday by the Minister of Defence, Mr Jones. He said that Home Guardsmen, would remain liable for service;'but they would not be called on to resume training.or service unless a change in the military situation so demanded. Home Guardsmen would be allowed to retain the boots issued to them, but all other articles were to be returned under arrangements to be made by unit commanders. Some Home Guardsmen had become liable for training in the Territorial Force, and these men would be required to return their arms and equipment but not their uniform. “I wish to place on record,” said Mr Jones, “the deep appreciation of the War Cabinet of the great service rendered to the country by the officers and men of the Home Guard, and in doing so I wish to include all those who were responsible for the inauguration of the Home Guard.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 December 1943, Page 2
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183HOME GUARD Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 December 1943, Page 2
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