A SOLDIER BALL

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 189, 11 August 1919, Page 9

A SOLDIER BALL

rOK AD__tSAL JSIXICOE. -TOW UNDER DISCUSSION". The Garrison Officers' Club has fallen 5n "with a suggestion to arrange a ball in ihonour of Lord Jellleoe, and although the idea has not yet passed the discussion stage it is very probable that the ball will duly become "un fait accompli." There is. however, one phase of "the proposition That mar possibly give cause for an interchange of divergent ideas, and that is the suggestion that returned ■officers should combine with the club for the purposes of the function. On Saturday evening the club held a meeting to go into the preliminary pros and cons of the idea, and about sixty returned officers wore present, and voted Mr. G- E. Elliott, president of the A_s.S__., to the chair. Colonel J. P. Stevenson, the president of the club, pave the details as they had been defined up to the time, and the officers undertook to assist The Returned Soldiers' Association has iheid a policy that there should be no distinction between returned officers and returned soldiers of the rank and file, where the question of an organised body of returned men comes up, and it is ibis that may cause a sore point when officers carry out a certain idea that' may not come before the association itself. However, it must be understood that this is only a possibility, although the idea of the ball may be mentioned when the R.S.A. executive meets on Tuesday evening. DATE OF ARRIVAL. (By Telegraph-—Press Association.) •WELUM-TON", this day. Tbe Minister of Interna! Affairs has S_ceived a cable from Admiral Jellicoe ttating that he will leave Sydney on August IC, and expects to arrive at Wellington on the 20th inst.