FOR HOME GUARDSMEN

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 179, 26 April 1941, Page 15

FOR HOME GUARDSMEN

A publication which will be eagerly sought after hy officers and men of the Home Guard is the “New Zealand Home Guard Manual, 1941” —a Hawke’s Bay contribution to home defence preparations. This manual is a product of the enterprise of No. 7 Home Guard area, Napier, by which it is published with the authority and approval of Dominion Headquarters. The manual appears to cover every branch of Home Guard training, at least as far as such training has been contemplated in this country. It is thoroughly up-to-date, the latest changes and detail improvements in forms of military drill having been incorporated, together with information (much of it illustrated) concerning the handling of automatic weapons. The chapter headings in the manual, which is of more than 200 pages, yet is compact enough to fit in a side pocket, give an indication of the contents. They are: Drill, small-arms Training, Fieldcraft, Mapping and Reconnaissance, Field Engineering, Signalling, Elementary Tactics, Transport, Training. There are also a number of appendices dealing with sanitation, “tank hunting,” instructional exercises and. appreciations and orders. Major-General Young, Dominion Commander of the Home Guard,, contributes a brief foreword to the manual, which he describes as placing “under one cover practically every form of training the Home Guard may be called upon to carry out.”