MEN WANTED

Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21372, 17 March 1941, Page 6

MEN WANTED

AIR FORCE NEEPS APPEAL IN HAMILTON Well over 1000 people assembled in Bledisloe Hall this afternoon to accord a welcome to the Royal New Zealand Air Force Band, which is visiting Hamilton in the recruiting campaign for the Royal New Zealand Air Force. The band, under Flight-Lieu-tenant Gladstone Hill, presented a number of marches, and demonstrated the ceremonial march in the hall. The Mayor, Mr H. D. Caro, said the British Empire was engaged in a life and death struggle, and thus is was incumbent upon all to rally with personal assistance. The war conditions required a vast increase in the Air Force, and New Zealand was contributing a splendid quota. efficiency ano smartness were splendidly typified in the Air Force Band, and it would assuredly live and act right up to the splendid traditions of the race, with courage, devotion and duty always prominent. He was confident Waikato would respond to the recruiting appeal with a fine quota of splendid young men imbued with purposefulness and enthusiasm that would be very material factors in winning the war. The training of these men in New Zealand and overseas would equip them for the sterner fight against the Empire’s enemies; the fact that tfiousands were responding to the call was heartening to the Empire's leaders. America’s Part j Referring to America, Mr Caro said the generous help being given by the United States Government, typified by the Lend-and-Lease Bill, showed that the British were not now lighting alone. New Zealand's duty, at present, was to keep up a steady line of recruits for the Expeditionary Forces and for the Air Force. The young men of the Waikato and Hamilton would do their | part worthily. (Applause.) ; Brief addresses, were given by : Squadron-Leader A. C. MacArthur, ! chairman of the Royal New Zealand ’ Air Force Selection Committee, and ' Lieutenant Gladstone Hili, conductor oi the Aii- Force Band.