HOME GUARD

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23300, 9 April 1941, Page 12

HOME GUARD

Sir.—l have read the reported remarks of Mr McTeigue complaining of the apathetic attitude of farmers in the Yaldhurst district toward the Home Guard. No sane man believes in war: we in advancing years have observed and felt its consequences, but the man who is not prepared to protect his dependants (to say nothing of the democratic conditions second to none in the world existing in New Zealand) is nothing else than a dispicable coward. As the youth of the country are conscripted for service abroad to check the possible advance of invasion to these shores, it is a reasonable and common|Sense expectation that we remaining in a land at peace should be prepared to sacrifice some of our recreational periods for the purpose which it would be most useful. Should (and God forbid) we come under the dominance of the Japanese, these Yaldhurst delinquents _ would look well in the shafts of a rickshaw trotting a Japanese officer over the property from which they once derived a comfortable living, to inspect the aerodrome and freezing works surrounding the area in which he or they at present reside. I sincerely congratulate Mr McTeigue on .his endeavours and the publicity given to the matter.-Yours. etc.. BARNSLEY April 7/1941.