HOME GUARD RALLY.
DARGAVILLE GATHERING.
OVER 600 MEMBERS PARADE.
(0.C.) DARGAVILLE, this d*j. Record crowds flockod to Darg«viJ]e to-day for a monger parade of the Homo (Juard and patriotic appeaL Alajor-Ucnoral R. Young, officer coe>"nanding tlic Home Guard, took tkt salute at Rugby Tark.
Mpmbcri of the Papakura Camp Band, tinder Bandmaster Captain Gro. Bucklcj. who arrived yesterday afternoon. ■» participating! i" the function, with two Scottish pipe ibands. the Whan™«n-5 Band and tie DargaviUe B«*« Band.
Between (WO and TOO members of the Home Guard paraded under Captain W. R. Wowlry and Colonel AMred. Waiuka district ooinnijs-ioner. The Rt- Hon. «'. <•. Coate*. member of iho War C-abinet, present.
The Papaknrii Hand last night dflighted a largo attendance gathered oi the forcf-horc reservo. with a programne °f popular music. The -band will rrtora to Papakura to-morrow.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 51, 1 March 1941, Page 10
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134HOME GUARD RALLY. Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 51, 1 March 1941, Page 10
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