NEED FOR PREPAREDNESS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 14 June 1939, Page 3

NEED FOR PREPAREDNESS

INTERNATIONAL SITUATION j ~ ! LM I H)RTAXCK OE TEI UXIL \E THAI XING j ll iiiieil I’i fKt* Asocial Mini Al CKEAX'D. 13tii -111110. I lie necessity for every man to be ready answer the call to service was stressed I by tlio Governor-General, Viscount GalWay, when praising the work ol the officers alid me 1 of the-Auckland Division of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve to-night, lifter making an inspection of the Division. ' About 140 members of the division pnradEord Galway sad he wished to offer the . division his cordial*- praise for the hard work they were putting into training in ' their spare tine. Black, and dangerous clouds overhung Europe, and it was essential that every j man who whs a real man at heart should ! b j ready, if the call came, to give his | best where is would carry most weight, j This was .what the division was learning to do. so Ilia 1 , if members were needed by their country, they would be ready, a trained force of immediate usefulness. ! ‘T know from what I have seen and j heard on all sides.” said Lord Galway, “that New Zealand is as loyal to King | an ! country as is any of the Dominions I anil, should it be necessary. New Zealand would go wholeheartedly to the help I of the Mother Country ; but it is of very : greatest importance that New Zealanders ] .should acquire the technical knowledge I that is essential in modern warfare.” In these days, he continued, skill, brain, coolness and courage Were all required iu warfare. Of all Ihings required, however. technical knowledge was most important, and this was what the division