MOBILE CANTEEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 48, 26 February 1941, Page 8

MOBILE CANTEEN.

FOR N.Z. TROOPS OVERSEAS. RETURNED MEN'S DECISION. (P.A.) WKLLIXGTOX, this day. The Dominion executive of the Xew Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association, at a. meeting to-day, decided to purchase a mobile canteen for Xew Zealand troops overseas. This has been made possible by the Tasinan Trust Fund, of which ;>0 per cent is to be expended on comforts for Xew Zealand troops overseas. The statement of Major-Genera 1 Sir .John Duigan regarding appointments to commissioned rank, and that in future promotions would be made by Major-Gcneral B. ('. Frcybcrg overseas, was read with satisfaction by the executive. Representations arc to be made for increased rates in certain classes ef war pensions, war veterans' allowances and in dependents' allowances (army). Advice has been received from the X.Z.E.F. Canteen Regimental Funds Trust Board intimating that benevolent (disability) grants were to be continued for a further six months at £.>OO per month; and also that the sum of £2000 would be available, as required, for necessitous individual cases throughout the Dominion, in the discretion of the Dominion executive.

It was reported that the financial membership for the Dominion as at December .11 last was .14,272, an increase of about 8000 over the total for the same period last year.