TO FIGHT AGGRESSION

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20254, 23 May 1940, Page 2

TO FIGHT AGGRESSION

COUNTY EMPLOYEES JWAIROA ASSURANCE (Special to tho Herald.) : % WAIROA, this day. of the men, both European and Maori, who have been in our employ have joined various units of the;’ New Zealand .Forces for service with the Allied armies now engaged im’a .life and death struggle against thd barbarous forces of Nazism,” stated the chairman of the Wairoa County Council. Mr. A. T. Carroll, in hlsj report. on the . year's activities presented at 'the armual meeting of lh® council'yesterday. desire;to congratulate thorn on their prompt rallying to the Empire’s aid in its lime of need.” added the chairman:; ■‘‘There never was a more worthy and just cause than the one whilih: i this "War is being waged, ■iftl would .like to wish them the best oMuck.aiufctiiSiSfc. return and also to 'giyje an., nMJrance that all of our employees who-.go'overseas on war -ser- • v«e will receiVe a warm welcome on retiith and will find their former employment awaiting them, and that should the need arise anything that tM council -can. do to make conditions easier arid-more comfortable for dependents while'the men themselves are away will be done.” I. '