CLAY BIRD SHOOTERS.
VALUE IN HOME DEFENCE.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, Tuesday.
With the world situation as it wa-i and it not being known from day to day what was going- to happen, there was in the shooters of New Zealand who were too old for overseas service the founda-
tion of one of the best home defence organisations that could be produced, said the Minister of Intcrnul Affairs, the Hon. W. E. Parry, to-day at the opening of the New Zealand (inn Clubs' Association's Centennial traptthooping tournament at Taita.
Mr. Parry said there wore 3000 claybird shooters iu New Zealand, men with experience of bush and hills. He believed if they were called on to fight in Kew Zealand they would be as stiff a proposition as the enemy would meet anywhere ill the world.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 14, 17 January 1940, Page 14
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