HOME GUARD

Grey River Argus, 7 December 1940, Page 3

HOME GUARD

Compulsory Membership FOR MEN REJECTED OR EXEMPTED FROM FORCES. PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS, December 6. The Legislative Council passed the Waitara Harbour Bill and Finance Bill (No. 4). Discussing the provision for pensions for members of the Homo Guard in the Finance Bill, Hon. W. Perry suggested that men who are rejected for . military service or are exempted should be drafted into the Home Guard. There was a real danger around New Zealand, he said, and the time might come when the Home Guard would help to decide whether this country was to re- 1

main free, or Io come under the domination of a foreign power. The Leader of the Council (Hon. D. Wilson), said he agreed with this suggestion, and he thought that the Manpower Committees should give serious consideration to makingmembership of the Home Guard a condition of exemption from military service. The Council considered the Sea Carriage of Goods Bill, Agricultural Emergency Regulations Confirmation Bill, and Mokau Harbour Bill from the second reading stage, and the three measures were put through the remaining stages and passed.