THE HOME GUARD

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21229, 27 September 1940, Page 9

THE HOME GUARD

(To the Editor) Sir, “ Achilles ” for his able assistance in setting out the A.B.C. of the Home Guard. The public will be indebted, too. Everything is as clear as the water that flows under the Ohinemuri bridge at Paeroa. It only remains for someone to form a Home Guard and get its members to sign on the dotted line. In this respect it is essential from a tactical point of view that the initial efforts be crowned with success. “Ajax” is frothing at the bit to assist in any rational movement that will add to our security, but at the moment the Minister and his organ isers and commanders all seem to have a different idea of the functions of the Home Guard, and this enforced idleness is galling. The Minister’s speech here on September 10 was a mass of contradictions. The regulations clearly indicate that the Home Guard and the Women’s Auxiliary are part of the Emergency Precaution Scheme, while the Minister just as clearly indicated that the Emergency Precautions scheme and the Women’s Auxiliary were part of the Home Guard. But the present is no time for flippancy. It is now 15 days since the Minister was here and 36 days since Jie launched his campaign, and still no move.—l am, etc., AJAX, Hamilton, September 26.