RECRUITING TOUR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23591, 27 February 1940, Page 9

RECRUITING TOUR

SEEIES OF MEETINGS HON. P. FRASER'S PLANS INVERCARGILL TO WHANGAREI [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Monday Arrangements are being made for. a series of mass recruiting meetings to bo addressed by the deputy-Prime Minister, the Hon. P. Fraser, whose tour, which will be carried out mainly by aeroplane, will include a programme of meetings ranging from Invercargill to Whangarei. Mr. Fraser will leave Wellington for Invercargill by air on March 4, and, after visiting South Island centres, will return to Wellington on March 9. He will then tour the North Island as far as Whangarei, returning to Auckland on March 17.

The main object of the tour is to inaugurate a great co-operative campaign on behalf of New Zealand's war effort, in which the Government and members of Parliament, Labour. National and Independent, local bodies, local recruiting committees and the public generally will participate. Mr. Fraser will deal at the various meetings with the issues at stake in the conflict with Nazi Germany, and will emphasise the grave danger in which New Zealand stands, along with other nations of the British Commonwealth, unless Germany is defeated. In addition to stressing the need for recruits, Mr. Fraser will urge all to help in the war effort accbrcfing to their opportunities, Major-General J. E. Duigan, Chief of the General Staff, will accompany Mr. Fraser and will speak at all meetings.