RIFLE IMPRESSMENT
OWNERS IN HOME GUARD FORMAL TRANSFER NEEDED Members of the Home Guard owning .303 rifles are obliged. to have them formally impressed, stated the Auckland police authorities yesterday when a question from a correspondent to the Hkrald on the matter was referred to them. Although the original regulations stated that owners in the Home Guard did not have to comply with the impressment order it is now provided that their rifles should be impressed. The procedure adopted is for the rifle to be handed to the police nt a parade, a receipt being given the owner to enable him to claim compensation in the event of damage. The rifle is then immediately handed back to him by his Home Guard commander. If the guardsman has a borrowed rifle the same method is adopted, with the exception that the receipt is sent to the owner as a cover against damage. The effect of the new provision is therefore to assist guardsmen rifle-owners. More than 1200 rifles of .303 type have been received by stations in the Auckland police district, but about 100 still remain unaccounted for. Included in those not yet impressed are a number of rifles held by guardsmen who are not aware of the new provision.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 24026, 25 July 1941, Page 6
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