YOUTH AND DEFENCE
(To the Editor.) Sir—As a young New Zealander, an employee of the railway workshops, I should like to add a suggestion in regard to the call on the youth of New Zealand for home defence. The opinion I have gathered from reading your columns is that we do not enlist for home defence because we are afraid of being sent overseas. That is not so, for as a result of many inquiries I find that we all say that we just can't be bothered. However, if the Government requires votes or money for daily papers they go to the workshops. Now why should they not plead the cause for home defence in the same way? At present the volunteers are sent into camp, and paid. Why not form an N.Z.R. force of young volunteers and grant them one day in every three or four weeks for conveyance to Trentham by train. Their wages and time lost from work would not vary much from existing conditions. And what could set a finer example than a force from the Hutt shops?—l am, etc., MUST APPEAL.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 132, 7 June 1939, Page 10
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