Should Know How.
The value of every man learning :o handle a rifle was emphasised bv Mr F. W. Doidge, M.P., at a Home Guard meeting in Tauranga last Tuesday evening. He said that what he would like to see in every town in New Zealand was a number of shooting galleries where men could go whenever they had a few minutes to spare to put in. some target practice. By this in teaching people to shoot.
“Would (Viake a Chap Sick.” “The Government at home gets many a curse from the lads over here. We are still getting the local newspapers about two months old, and the wharfies and miners’ strikes make a chap sick." states ;t Dunedin soldier on active service in the Middle East in a letter to bis parents. “Let me tell you also that the ‘Aussies’ are getting their own beer, cigarettes, tobacco, etc., in their canteen, but we are told that our Government will not do the same for us. it would make a great difference, having to pay seven piastres for a tin of our own tobacco instead of 12 or 13 piastres for English stuff.”
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Franklin Times, Volume XXX, Issue 8, 22 January 1941, Page 4
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193Should Know How. Franklin Times, Volume XXX, Issue 8, 22 January 1941, Page 4
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