AIR DEFENCES
BATTERY FOR WELLINGTON The formation in the immediate future of a Territorial anti-aircraft battery for the defence of Wellington was announced as part of the running commentary on the parade broadcast by the national station 2YA. The battery, to be known as the 22nd Territorial Anti-Aircraft Battery, will require 100 recruits, including drivers, gunners, and specialists such as electricians and experts to man the height- atid range-finders. It will be the first battery of its kind in Wellington, and only keen men are wanted. The enlistment office is at Fort Dorset. PACIFIST VIEWPOINT Accompanying the parade through the city were three men with sandwich-boards conveying the warning that they who take up the sword shall perish by it, and calling on the country to disarm. Dodgers handed out by the men on behalf of the Christian Pacifist Society bore the heading "Come' down to earth!!" and said that moral issues could not be decided by preparations for war, "which must cause international conflicts with their tragic accompaniments of economic loss, destruction of human life, and moral degradation." Under no circumstances could military methods be justified on Christian grounds: IN OTHER CENTRES (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Seldom has a King's Birthday been celebrated in Auckland under brighter conditions. There was sunshine, a light southerly breeze, and crispness in the air. Large numbers of people spent the day outdoors, the principal attractions being the Great Northern Meeting at Ellerslie, the traditional military parade at the Domain with band music and pageantry, Rear-Ad-miral Drummond taking the salute, also football and hockey matches. All golf links were crowded. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. 'A spectacular military and Air Force review by the Governor-General (Lord Galway), and the hardest frost of the year—l3.s degrees—were the highlights of the King's Birthday in Christchurch. Over two thousand troops, including all the mechanised units, marched past.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 131, 6 June 1938, Page 10
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310AIR DEFENCES Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 131, 6 June 1938, Page 10
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