Price of Vigilance

“Defence building work that would open the eyes of people if we could tell them this is going on in this country,” said the Minister of Public Works, Mr Armstrong, this morning. “We are not as helpless or as hopeless as some people seem to imagine.”
[Nelson Evening Mail, February 23, 1942]

A quote that starts the riveting factual story behind the building of the gun emplacements in the Marlborough Sounds.