KEEN INTEREST
RECRUITING RALLIES
'■ vßy Telegraph— l'ress Association, i NEW PLYMOUTH, March 14. Preceded by parades of returned soldiers and Army and Air Force units, headed by brass bands and pipers, recruiting meetings conducted at Hawera and New Plymouth today by the Deputy Prime Minister (the Hon. P. Fraser) and Major-General J. E Duigan were exceptionally well attended and were markedly the keenest enthusiasm. . Interest at both centres was kindled by the. arrival of the touring party by aeroplane, following which pamphlets were dropped over the towns from the machine. - Enthusiasm was most marked tonight at New Plymouth, where hundrtds of people lined the mam street for the parade of more than 450 officers and men, members of the St. John Ambulance, Voluntary Aid Detachment, and Red Cross.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 64, 15 March 1940, Page 5
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128KEEN INTEREST Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 64, 15 March 1940, Page 5
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