CHURCH AND SUNDAY DRILL
Rev. Beaumont apparently objects to the Home Guara drilling on Sunday. But his letter in Wednesday's Star should really have been addressed to Hitler. Persuade Adolf to throw in the sponge or throw himself over a cliff (either should be effective) and, I feel certain, every Home Guardsman would willingly forego Sunday and any other parades. As the Guard •grows as an essential feature of the defence system so will all-day parades and manoeuvres become more numerous, so that Saturday afternoon parades would be no real solution. Many men, especially in defence industries, are working on Saturdays. Others are devoting the only small segment of the week left them to their gardens and families, few to sport. Uoshould not be overlooked that disorganisation is unpaid and purely voluntary. Under these circumstances it seems only fair that the men themselves should be allowed to decide when they will parade. Mr. Beaumont will surely agree, too. that it is possible to worship God in manv places other than a church. C. C. BOND.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 281, 27 November 1941, Page 6
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