R.S.A. SOCIAL CLUBS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 135, 9 June 1932, Page 10

R.S.A. SOCIAL CLUBS.

FORMATION IN SUBURBS. PROMOTION OF FELLOWS llll'. The committee of the Auckland Returned Soldiers' Association has decided to form social clubs in a number of the Auckland suburban areas, with a view to promoting good fellowship amongst ex-servicemen and to retaining the esprit do corps which existed during the war, which the association considers should become mora manifest at the present time. Tho proposal is to form clubs for Mount Albert and Morningsidc, Mount Eden and Sandringham, Heme Bay and Ponsonby, Epsom and One Tree Hill, Remuera and Newmarket, Kohimarama and St. Helicr's Bay, Point Chevalier and Avondalo, Devonport and Stanley Bay, and Northeote and Birkenhead. Next Wednesday the Mayor of Mount Eden, Sir. T. McNab, will open the Mount Eden and Sandringham clubs, and on Juno 22 Mr. W. F. Stilwcll, the Mayor of Mount Albert, will do tho same at Mount Albert and Morningsidc. At both meetings Sir George Richardson and others will give addresses.

Where a club of similar nature is already in existence, an attempt will be made to incorporate that club with the scheme under certain conditions, but failing this tho association intends to procecd with the formation of one of its own clubs without regard for existing institutions. The social clubs are calculatcd to help both the individual members and tho work of fhc R.S.A. Conditions of membership, as laid down by the draft articles of the social clubs, are four: A signed obligation by the applicant for membership, expressing his loyalty to the Auckland Returned Soldiers' Association, bis willingness to abide by the rules, an undertaking by him to foster the. spirit of comradeship, and to support and protect tho character and status of the members, and finally to conduct himself on all occasions with decorum The clubs, further, are to have no political significance.