SOCKS FOR HOME GUARDS
(To the Editor.)
Sir, —Home Guardsmen should raise their voices to demand that not <>nly socks, but also shirts suitable for wearing under the uniform should be issued coupon-free. Why not give a liberal free issue? There are plenty of woollen socks in the country. So far we have not minded buying our own. But to give up coupons for them is over the fence. The woollen socks don't stand up to many hours' hard wear when one is doing hill work in today's version of the good olcf Bill Masseys. Perhaps the Home Guard committee of inquiry will have something to say on this matter, but at any rate the feeling is strong. Home Guardsmen have already spent enough of their own money on tram fares, food, cooking utensils, tools, nails, and material for bivouacs. The amount thus expended in the past eighteen months would make up a good round sum per man.— I am, etc.,
'PIKARERE.'
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 134, 9 June 1942, Page 4
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