HOME DEFENCE
NUCLEUS OF FINE ORGANISATION By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON. January 16With the world situation as it was and it not being known from day to day what was going to happen, there was in the shooters of New Zealand who were too old for overseas service the foundation of one of best home defence organisations that could be produced, said the Hon. W. E. Parry to-day at the opening of the Centennial Trap-shooting Tournament at Taita. Mr Parry said there were 3000 clay bird shooters in New Zealand, men with experience of the bush and hills. He believed that if they were called on to fight in New Zealand they would be as stiff a proposition as an enemy would meet anywhere in the world.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21554, 17 January 1940, Page 6
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