DEFENCE SCHEMA CRITICISED
GOVERNMENT’S POLICI “LUKEWARM” RESOLUTION BY R.S.A. (P.A.) TIMARU. February 19 Criticism of the Government fA what it termed “a lukewarm attitudj toward national defence, particularly! in relation to compulsory military! training,” was expressed by South! Canterbury branches of the Returned Services’ Association at a- combined! executive meeting at Timaru to-nightf The meeting adopted a resolution cgIJJ ing on the Dominion executive of the Returned Services’ Association to takj steps "to stir the Government into furJ ther action and to put before ..the pubJ lie the deplorable state into which the! country had slipped since the end the war.”
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25732, 18 February 1949, Page 8
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