“DUTY OF THE STATE”

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 December 1939, Page 8

“DUTY OF THE STATE”

PROVISION'FOR SOLDIERS' NEEDS [l’EB 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 the 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,” he said, “and you have a box poked under your nose every few yards. The principle of this thing is wrong. The Government should undertake all the work and do the job properly.” After a discussion in which the view was expressed that it. was a wonderful thing for the men who were going abroad to know that the people were behind them, and that the Government could not do everything, the Chairman expressed the opinion that the operation of the Metropolitan Patriotic Committee would not be so effective as the system adopted in the last war. when local committees showed the. greatest enthusiasm and tine spirit. The Chairman (Mr. Windley) was appointed the Council's representative. with Airs. Windley as the representative on the women’s committee. MONEY FOR ANTI-TANK I’NIT. AI'f’KLAND, December 8. In order to establish a regimental fund for the New Zealand anti-tank squadron in London, the Chairman of the Auckland Provincial Patriotic Council (Sir Ernest Davis) has cabled £15(1 to the High Commissioner (Mr. Jordan), with a request that the money be handed to the officer commanding the unit, to ensure a measure of Christmas comforts.