HOME GUARD WORK
APPEAL MADE FOR SUPPORT (0.C.) HAMILTON, Monday An appeal for support for the Home Guard was made by Captain T. H. Melrose, Hamilton unit commander, in an address to the Hamilton Rotary Club to-day. Captain Melrdso said lie believed that every man able to carry a riflo, and not in any other armed force, should be a member of the Homo Guard. The unit was handicapped with regard to equipment, and in this matter the speaker felt tho Government had not kept its promises. > Captain Melrose said tho Hamilton battalion was remarkable for its esprit do corps and tho willingness of members to spend their own money in providing equipment. The manual it. had published had been in demand throughout New Zealand and had proved a great success. He expressed the opinion that all the military organisations in New Zealand should be co-ordinated under one head.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23993, 17 June 1941, Page 6
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149HOME GUARD WORK New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23993, 17 June 1941, Page 6
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