PATRIOTIC ASSOCIATION.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 172, 20 July 1916, Page 2

PATRIOTIC ASSOCIATION.

MEETING OF THE TJUTECtITIV-B. The Mayor (,Mr J. H. Gunsou) presided orer a meeting of the executive committee of the Auckland Patriotic Association, held in ttie Town Hall yesterdny nfternoon. Applications Declined,—The Association) declined the following applications.—Refunding cost of advertising, the establishment of Returned Soldiers Association's -Employment Committee: money for sidedrum for the Auckland companies of. the 18th Keinforcementf?; donation towards tuc cost of providing concerts for men In-ramp et Pftxchorston. The socontl rtMiucst wns ■referral to the Women's Patriotic Leagne.

Cordial thanks were expressed to Mie shareholders of the New IMiry Association for the girt or £725, the aggregate proceeds of deductions from sums received by them for butter-fat, which thoy <!<H'illO(l JSOtUP t llDc HJTO to plvc* t.n the •Patriotic Fund. It was decided to Inquire what period the donation covered. Committee Elected. —As tlii* was tile first meeting of the newly-elecLed executive, committees were re-elected with the addition of the name of Mr V. .1. Uirner to the Finance Committee, and of Mr 11. I). Heather to the Claims Board. Employment Bureaux.—Arising out of the alleged overlapping that will result from tlie formation by flic ■Ueturned Soldiers' Association of tin employment committee, Mr K. E, Fenton, chairman of the Patriotic Association's employment committee, waited on the meeting and suggested that there should be only one otaclal body, and that if the Iccturned Soldiers' Association was really desirous of conducting its own bureau, the Patriotic Association's commlteee should be disbanded. Executive decided to ask the committee to continue for a month at least. A .New Brnnch.-Jlaving received the formal consent of the Tanmarunui nnd. To Ktiiti branches, the executive deckled to form a new branch of the Association at Ohura, and to ask the local committee to liiiud over to the executive the £2floo It has in hand. Soltllcra ou the Land.—The executive decided to present to the Government the president's scheme for establishing train--1 Ing farms for placing soldiers on the land. i The Mayor replied to criticisms on the i scheme by pointing out lhat the chief J pointe covered by critlcx were provided ; for in Ihe scheme Itself, mere was special! I provision in the SChiraie for dealing with \ i men -who did not require special training. I New Zcalandcrs In .London. —On tlie recommendation nt the J'inance Committee, 'it was decided to notify the Advisory Board -Hint n sum of CHX) wae now lylnff I .in London to the .-rrdlt of the Auckland • Association, aud that it had been ! authorised to use the money as part of j Auckland's Ausnst niiota towards the I monthly sum of £3000 now being provided .by the Advisory Hoard for the provision of comforts for sick and -wounded Xcw i Zealand soldiers abroad. I The Soldiers' Club.—The Soldiers' Club ! Committee reported that the expenses , Incurred by the Association in connection ! -with the club approximated £1000, lucludj ins £500 paid to the V.M.C.A. A donation of £200 had been received towards the needs of the dub, and Ihe balance of Ihe <l<rbt was about £730. Tin- Iteturnoi] j Soldiers' Association now had In hand I about £400. ami the executive, takln;; the I view tli.it this sum iras sufficient to ecenre J the club being carried on without further j assistance, decided -to pay off the present debt.