"AWAKE NEW ZEALAND" MOVEMENT
RESPONSE IN WAIKATO DISTRICT (P.A.i HAMILTON, March IG. The "Awake New Zealand” campaign inaugurated in Hamilton recently is meeting with a ready response throughout the Waikato and surrounding districts, and donations are steadily pouring in. the total to date being £2250 The objects of the organisation arc to rouse the public and the Government to the urgent necessity of a total war effort. The organisation is also urging that every able-bodied 'man should be trained to fight, and all factories and workshops of the country should be used to the fullest capacity in producing the arms, ammunition and equipment required; and the need for immediate individual action without waiting for Government compulsion, as the success of any defence effort made by the Government must rest finally on the offensive spirit of the people themselves; and to obtain for Home Guard units such equipment as the resources of the district can supply.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23589, 17 March 1942, Page 6
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