NEEDS OF SOLDIERS
THE GOVERNMENT'S DUTY CANNOT DO EVERYTHING [Pee United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, December 8. “ This is the State’s duty from beginning to end,” declared Cr Purchase at a meeting of the Makara County Council, when tho question of appointing county representatives on the Metropolitan Patriotic Committee came up. He considered that the State should undertake the whole task of providing for the needs of soldiers. “ You only have to walk through the streets of Wellington this morning and you have a box poked under your noso every few yards. Tho principle of this thing is wrong. The Government should undertak all the work and do the job properly.” After a discussion, in winch the view was expressed that it was a wonderful thing for the men who were going abroad to know that tho people were behind them and that the Government could not do everything, tho Chairman expressed tho opinion that the operation of tho Metropolitan Patriotic Committee would not be so effective as tho system adopted! last war, when local committees showed the greatest enthusiasm and a fine spirit. The chairman (Mr Windley) was appointed representative, with Mrs Winclloy as representative of the women’s committee.
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Evening Star, Issue 23444, 8 December 1939, Page 6
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199NEEDS OF SOLDIERS Evening Star, Issue 23444, 8 December 1939, Page 6
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