MASS RECRUITING

Evening Star, Issue 23511, 27 February 1940, Page 8

MASS RECRUITING

DEPUTY PREMIER TO TOUR DOMINION CHIEF OF GENERAL STAFF TO ASSIST [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, February 26. Arrangements are being made for a series of mass recruiting meetings to be addressed by the Deputy I’rinie Minister, Hon. R. Fraser, whose toilr, which will be carried out mainly by aeroplano, will include a programme of meetings ranging from Invercargill to Whangarci. The Minister's proposed itinerary is as follows : March 4. —Leave Wellinton by plane for Invercargill; meeting that night. March s.—lnvercargill to Dunedin; address the same night. March 7.—Dunedin to Oamaru ; address a meeting and then continue to Timaru for a meeting at night. March 8. —Timaru to Blenheim; afternoon meeting and, then continue to Nelson for a meeting at night. March 9.--Nelson to Wellington. March 12.—Wellington to Palmerston North, where a meeting will be held that night. March 13. —Palmerston North to Wanganui: a meeting at night. March 14. —Wanganui to Hawera, where there will be an afternoon meeting, then continue to New Plymouth for a meeting at night. March 15. New Plymouth to Whangarei; a meeting that night March 16. —Whangarei to Hamilton; a meeting that night. March 17.—Return to Wellington. The main object of the tour is to inaugurate a great co-operative campaign on behalf of New Zealand’s war effort in which the Government and members of Parliament, Labour, National, and Independent, local bodies, local recruiting committees, and the public generally will participate. Mr Fraser will deal at the various meetings with the issues at stake in the conflict with Nazi Germany and will emphasise grave danger in which New Zealand stands along with the other nations of the British Comrhonwealth unless Germany is defeated. In addition to stressing the need for recruits, Mr Fraser will urge all to help in the war effort according to their opportunities. Major-general Duigan, Chief of the General Staff, will accompany Mr Fraser and will speak at all the meetings. Enthusiastic efforts are being made in the various towns and districts to be visited to ensure that the meetings will be records in attendance, and in the determination to do everything possible to assist New Zealand’s part in the world struggle for democracy and freedom and to maintain the Dominion’s position as an integral part of the British Commonwealth of Nations, free from all fear of foreign domination.