“AWAKE NEW ZEALAND” MOVEMENT
♦ — ■ RELATION TO COUNTRY’S WAR EFFORT (P.R.) WELLINGTON, March 17. A suggestion that the “Awake New Zealand” campaign was harmful to the country's war effort was contained in the notice of a question ' iven by Mr W. M. C. Denham (Labour, Invercargill) in the House of Representatives io-day. Mr Denham intends to ask the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser) if he is aware that this campaign was organised by a section of the people who were necessarily ignorant of New Zealand's war activities, and whose chief concern apparently was to unseat the Government. “As tactics employed by the organisations are very familiar, namely, public protest meetings, subsequent to vigorous ncwsnapc' - propaganda." said Mr Denham, “will the Prime Minister take some action to awaken the ‘Awake New Zealand" campaigners to the fact that their criticism is neither valuable nor constructive, but is querulous and fretful, and mav play into the hands of our enemies?” The “Awake New Zealand" campaign was inaugurated in Hamilton recently. Its objects are to rouse the public and the Government to the urgent necessity of a total war effort.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23590, 18 March 1942, Page 6
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