SENDING OF MEN OVERSEAS
MR BARNARD’S OPINION [United Press Association! W&iroa, May 15. That the Government had over-com-mitted New Zealand as far as sending men overseas was concerned was tha opinion expressed by Mr Barnard, M.P., when he addressed a meeting at Wairoa on the policy of the Democratic Labour Party. The first job, he said, was to protect our own country. Mr Barnard said that during the last war 120,000 men were recruited. About 100.000 were sent overseas, 85,000 being volunteers. Was it a fair thing, he asked. that married men with dependant* should be conscripted for war service when in other countries they had not conscripted single men? “Let us do 100 per cent, our share, but why should we do 500 per cent?” he said. He said that sufficient men should remain behind in New Zealand. The Home Guard was not sufficient, though their spirit was admirable.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 16 May 1941, Page 4
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