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HOME GUARD & EQUIPMENT
Referring to the work of the E.P.S. and the Home Guard at the extraordinary general meeting of the Dominion council of the N.Z.R.S.A. today, the president, the Hon. W. Perry, M.L.C., said that members of the Home Guard must assume that the Government was doing its best .to assure that the Home Guard would have equipment as soon as possible. He personally knew that tremendous efforts had been made and that no stone was being left unturned. He asked soldiers of the last war who were in the Home Guard to .be a stabilising influence on other members. They must exercise patience. They should remember that Hitler in 1933 trained his army without much equipment. He introduced conscription* arid shovels and picks were used to ttain the men in military movements, and particularly in the moving of large bodies of men expeditiously from place to place. In view of the fact that the Home Guard might have to fight in New Zealand, it should be provided with equipment as soon as possible, but men in the Home Guard how must realise that they must stay. in it, and train, until the equipment arrived, as much valuable time would be saved.'
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 104, 29 October 1941, Page 8
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206"STICK IT OUT" Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 104, 29 October 1941, Page 8
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