Recruiting Tour
Returned Men “Wonderful Spirit . GENERAL’S PRAISE I The manner in which returned soldiers in the South Island are rallying behind the national recruitingcampaign was commented on by Major-General J. E. Duigan, Chief of the General Staff, who accompanied the Deputy Prime Minister (the Hon. P. Fraser) on a recruiting tour of the principal towns in the south recently. General Duigan said that the parades of returned soldiers and members of the National Military Reserve showed a wonderful spirit and a decision to rally behind the national recruiting campaign. The Territorial units in the various centres, too, had responded well. The note he had endeavoured to strike throughout the whole of the South Island was the fact that members of the 2nd N.Z.E.F. had the same spirit that animated the New Zealand soldiers in the Boer War and in the 1914-18 conflict.
During the tour the General visited the guards on duty at certain vital points and inspected drill halls and local recruiting offices. He made special mention of the way in which the men on guard duty at one Invercargill point had, during their off-duty hours, laid out their camp and improved its surroundings by planting shrubs and creating a flower garden.
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Camp News, Volume 1, Issue 16, 29 March 1940, Page 4
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204Recruiting Tour Camp News, Volume 1, Issue 16, 29 March 1940, Page 4
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