RETURNED SOLDIERS' BE ANNUAL MEETING

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume L, Issue 7958, 10 April 1922, Page 3

RETURNED SOLDIERS' BE ANNUAL MEETING

MKGE GATHERING. OF re IAIG TURNED men.

rjie annual general meeting of . ilVtorn Bav of Plenty Return‘■Opt * °,Lt one ImmlnKl a,»l l.tty I-** "» IUS - Coknfl "’its™. ’LI Hie etair. ?J the special objects which the ■£w» P Wi.vi«. T e ialwork of the evening lw -a. J. L to make some to ffic rules providing for the setting nf district committees to ov< i“P,! ,le present dilfc.lly of tl..= Tiilerly .1,1,01, tl.cv.rpiiyttoiie of Uni il.ene. Minutes, inii.iltos of Hie Inst a.imujl read and ™nf.n.ied. Election of Officers. The following officers were dec j f o r (he ensuing year pmile.it: Colonel Wilson (re Messrs T. Murton (Kalikati); W. IT. < Ta "' L a ); Gardiner (-Moi.nl Maniiga- ’ •?, r j\{. Roberts (lc Puke). "tldU- T. 11. enwte, J. C. Inrtlan Dr Davy, J. N. Page, W. A. W. C. London, R. Wlierbridge, A. Fryeia K G. fox, G. BaikiP, E. J. hmallfield, J. Murphy. v Secretary-Treasurer: Mr t- • Clark, (re-elected). : Ron, Auditor: Mr R. la. Jhomas (re-elected). Alterations to Rules.

jlr WH. Poole submit!el a motion providing for the deletion of existing rule 9 and (ho substitution of a rule setting up district committees, anl a new rule constituting ’four districts, viz., Tauranga, le Puke, Mount, and Ratikati, and for the holding of annual meetings i„ each district in March. Each committee to consist of not less than four members and a chairman, and t 0 deal with the social or business matters' affecting returned men in ■ their own districts; ami where necessary'to ijefer cases to the oxecutive. , A further amendment to the rules was submitted and carried providing for ten days' notice instead of fourteen days for general meetings, and another amendment fixing jnectings of the executive committee not less than once a quarter instead of once a month. Auckland District Conference. •Alessrs'C. N. Clatk and Urqnahart were elected the Association s delegates to the Auckland district conference on May Gth and 7th. Remits to Conference,

It was decided to submit the following remits to tlie Auckland district conference for submission —if approved— to the Dominion Conference. ■l. That the advance to returned soldiers be increased from £750 to £IOOO. 3n That the loan for building be the same for men in rural districts as in towns. 3. Thai no more Asiatics be admitted into New Zealand. 4. That the repayment instalments on "loans be reduced, thus giving men a longer time to pay oil their Joans. 5. That the present apparently tin-restricted immigration bo more or less curtailed until things are easier,

6. That the Government be urged to modify the present restriction regarding a man losing bis pension on account of imprisonment, it being considered that a man’s pension is based solely on his disability incurred through wounds or sickness while on active- service, 7. That the Government be requested to consider the matter of either establishing a stud farm in this district, or adding it as a branch to the present Horticultural Hatiou in Tauranga. Motions of condolence, were passed in the usual way with the wives and families of the late Mr Moore Jones and E' Reeve. Thanks.

-On the. motion of the President the secretary was instructed to "’rile to tbe following ladies for t lie rendered at the recent production of the ‘‘Sleeping beauty' in aid of the new club room fund, viz,, Airs Alcikle, who arranged an( j carr jed out the entertainment; Mrs Baigont as head °f the Social branch of the St. John Ambulance; Airs Smallileld, who represented the returned soldiers "jves, and Mrs Buttimore, who actM as joint secretary with Air Clark. Annual Report, llio President submitted the following report—which was taken as read—on the work of the branch t°r the past year; is our third complete year a , r being legally incorporated "itb the New Zealand Returned ®ldiers' Association. A large ®ffioant of correspondence has been dealt with during the past year, much good work has been achieved. Throughout the whole year your committee has been greatly handicapped through several of hs members having been forced to So into hospital and sanatorium for At times it has been ifficult to get a quorum to do busines S, but only on one occasion has a committee had to bo postponed on a Mount of not having the quorum namely seven. Our "trouble, this J car , as last year, is the number of mifinancial members on the register. ai m we hope that these members vnll cognise their ditty to the man y other less fortunate returned who are needing the Associa- ■ J" n « help and come forward speedli * their subscriptions • Continued on Page 4