National Defence Demonstrations
PLANNED FOR MAIN CENTRES Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 2. An announcement that the Government and the War Cabinet had ap proved the holding of national defence demonstrations in the main centres of the Dominion shortly was made by Hon. E. Semple addressing a general parade of the Wellington Women’s War Service Auxiliary this evening. The idea, Mr. Semple said, was to demonstrate to tho people of the Dominion what was being done to prepare to defend the country if the necessity arose. The parades would include military equipment, including 25-ton New Zea-land-made tanks. The first would be held in Wellington on April IS, when it w-as expected that more than 10,000 neople would take part. Others would be held in Auckland, Christchurcn, Dunedin and possibly other centres later.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 80, 3 April 1941, Page 6
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132National Defence Demonstrations Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 80, 3 April 1941, Page 6
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