No Alternative To Impressing Rifles
[Per Press Association. Copyright .] WELLINGTON, This Day. Although no decision has yet been made, the Minister for National Service (Mr Semple) stated yesterday that the response to the appeal to owners of serviceable .303 rifles for the use of the Home Guard had been so amazingly poor that he could see no alternative to impressment. ! Mr Semple said there was no question of confiscation. When circumstances warranted the rifles would be returned to the owners, and, if loss or damage occurred, the owners would be compensated. It was necessary tb have the rifles in the interests of the defence of the country.
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Northern Advocate, 3 April 1941, Page 7
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