ARMY WEEK

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 23 June 1943, Page 2

ARMY WEEK

WINDOW DISPLAYS IN NELSON This week is being observed throughout New Zealand as Army Week in connection with the Liberty Loan campaign. Special window displays have been arranged in Nelson. Army equipment, weapons and ammunition on display in the window of Messrs J. G. Marshall Ltd., Bridge street, include a wide variety of interesting exhibits. Most of the weapons in this display bear a card giving tb» number of Liberty bonds which would be required to purchase them. The Vickers Machine Gun, for 120 Liberty bonds, is the costliest exhibit, and others are the Bren Gun (90 bonds), the Thompson sub-machine gun, better known as the "Tommy” gun (80 bonds), and the Lewis gun (50 bonds). Several other weapons of modern warfare, in eluding the Boys’ anti-tank gun, the New Zealand-made Charlton submachine gun. and the Browning medium machine gun. are displayed as well as field equipment such as the Lucas signalling lamp, the heliograph, the latest type of field telephone. The display in the window of Haffenstein Bros, in Trafalgar street, centres i on a trench mortar, costing £l2O, and the mortar bombs which are fired from it. A two-inch mortar, which costs £9O, "Tommy” guns, rifles, and a Verey light pistol comprise the remainder of the displa}-. Regimental pennants and bright posters lend colour to the exhibit. The bulk of the equipment used in the displays has been lent by the Home Guard authorities and some by the Army Department, Nelson.