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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17428, 12 April 1922, Page 4

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MBETINO OF EXECtrMVE. VA meeting of the .executive of the Christ* church.- Returned; SqUiers' - t Association; was held on Monday evening, Mar -ii.- Gr. Blackwell presiding. ... '..'..'.. . Fifty-two members ware elected* .-' It was decided that She; following .remit ham the ij'efhyen Beturned Soldiers should be" forwarded to the Canterbury • District conference bt tile which -is to be. held pa May 12th, "That the canteen, furids should be' : loaned to, local bodies for the purpose of providing work for unemployed returned soldiers during the coming winter, : and that the capital value of the fun-J ehould [be placed ■in the . hands of the Pensions Department for the. purpose of supplementing old age pensions granted to returned .soldiers." »'•.-. It was • announced .that' the-' Medical Appeal Board was to cease -fusetioning/after' May-3iet-next, and the following' resohrtion was passed: VIMS Association agrees' that present. War Pensions; 'itO&U c£l Appeal.Jßoard should.be abolished, but strongly purges 'that -411161116x3001111," obnsisting'of one Magistrate as chairman, one doc.tor, a;nd ,a 7 jgprwentitiys of Jhe. :.R,§.A.'' ehould' be immediately appointed in its place tO;.Jbear,',aJl appeals made by returned soldiers against the of the' "War 3>en, saons-Board." ■ .. Several letters of thanks. were received from members fox services. rendered. tie Hon.W. F. Maaaey»had been requested to grant a Magisterial inquiry into.the circumBtaac«mujroundirig the .discharge of a tube** CTiai soldier from" the Cashmere. MfliSarv Sanatorium, and Ms subsequent death * vmorrth .later ia ~w r Christcrmrca- boaidkff. house, also into,othej- eases of treatment \>y the medical aunties towards returned soldiers. who had h£&2! down in health as>» : \ of^^ r °*£ services. The= Prime, Minister , bad *er.l£J stating;, that he was taking • a = ™ of discussing the matter with ♦£ MiniSter.of JJefence.; It. was therefor* 'T 8 crded: -that, farther action should he" Soj -