RECRUITING TOUR

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20184, 29 February 1940, Page 3

RECRUITING TOUR

SERIES OF MEETINGS HON. P. FRASER’S PLANS Arrangements are being made for a series of mass recruiting meetings to be addressed bv the deputy-Prime Minister, the Hon. P. Fraser, whose tour, which will be carried out mainly by aeroplane, will include a programme of meetings ranging from Invercargill to Whangarei. Mr. Fraser will leave Wellington for Invercargill by air on March 4. and. after visiting South Island centres, will return to Wellington on March 9. He will then lour the .North Island as far as Whangarei, returning to Auckland on March 17. 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 ip the conflict with Nazi Germany, and will emphasise the grave danger in w deb New Zealand stands, along with ether nations of the British Commonwealth. unless Germany is defeatedIn addition to stressing the need for recruits, Mr. Fraser will urge all to help in the war effort according to their opportunities. Major-General J. F. Duigan, Chief of the General Staff, will accompany Mr. Fraser and will speak at all meetings.