A CIVIL GUARD

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 31, 31 October 1932, Page 10

A CIVIL GUARD

Proposal for New Zealand

U.S. LESSON IN LOYALTY

A strong plea for a more rigid insistence in New Zealand upon loyalty to King and Empire was contained iu the annual presidential address to the Auckland Provincial Employers’ Association, delivered by Mr. Albert Spencer at the annual meeting on October 27. “In every school throughout the United States of America and their ad* jacent territory of Hawaii every day tlie flag of the United States is saluted by all the scholars in their playground, and each school room has the flag hung on the wall facing the pupils,” he said. “Every pupil is instructed on two main points—namely, loyalty to the United States and the flag, and punctuality always. “The Americans will not tolerate the slightest disrespect to their flag, or the least show of disloyalty. In almost every American city they have a civil guard organised to assist the police and State authorities to maintain order and to protect life and property. In Honolulu some years ago a riot took place. The civil guards turned out in thousands and the riots were immediately stopped and peace was restored.

“We badly want a civil guard in this country now compulsory training for our young men is no longer effective, and every man or woman who lives under the protection of the British flag should be loyal and time, or get out of the country. “In America they will not tolerate the traitor or the disloyalist: why should we do so in New Zealand?”