THE HOME GUARD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 88, 13 March 1941, Page 6

THE HOME GUARD.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —On joining the Home Guard we were given to understand that we would be required to carry out two hours drilling per week. We are now requested to parade on Saturday afternoons,' with the time taken for 'evening parades approaching three hours. We are also asked to contribute-funds, for the Guard. Have we no local bodies to supply funds as in other centres? Oil Sunday next we proceed to somewhere on the coast to carry out further training. A splendid idea, and 1 hope every guardsman will he present, hut we must pay for the petrol to take us there. If, as Mr Semple states, this threat of invasion is real and not imaginary, then, sir. 1 maintain that the Home Guard should be placed under military control at once, financed by the Government or local bodies, and training made compulsory. Unless this is doue I’m afraid that the kenness so evident among members at present will gradually diminish, and when our battalion finds someone to compose its inarching song and conduct a community sing, it won’t he to marching feet but to empty ranks.— I am, etc., SOUTH BATTALION.