RETURNED SOLDIERS' ASSOCIATION.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20626, 16 August 1932, Page 11

RETURNED SOLDIERS' ASSOCIATION.

J ggriNU EXECUTIVE. ])• executive oi the Canterbury KeSoldiers' Association met last There wore present:—Messrs JL Jkck (in the chair). S. F. MarA. L. Emerson. J. S. Cbisholm, fi. i. Havtlen, E. \V. Smith, C. ClusmS, G. A. Dabourn. \Y. E. Leadley, nj the lie*. F. T. Head. Oa Cnemploymeut Committee iepgied that the number ot registrations, gince the last meeting of the steatite was 510. For the week ojed August oth, the association for 91 days' subsidised work It » cort of For the following Htlthe total was 140 days at a cost rf £ls. Tweuty-hve men had been emjfcpd to cleau'aud re-paint the MuniBaths. v» commit ue had received advice in»,tiie- Heatlicoie County .Council tfe the period lor which the associate had given a subsidv ol £2o to jq iar insurance charges and superOHK expired at the end of. August. Tbc fflßDcil asked for a further sub■M.jso in order to keep tlie men a for another three mouths. fSMmI/ft returned men were emPleasant. The com■Hnfpn finances would not allow it tajxei the council's request. 72* jprattcr was referred to the Tame fcoimiiittee. whicli was given fWC to act. J|rTlea<l w-.is appointed itidge of the Ml* Day essays.

/MR HUGO FREETH.

®|iY TO CONGRATULATIONS

lreply from Mr Hugo t Teetli to its asgtatulations on his appointment to it editorship of The Pbess was re■ll by the executive of the ChristAgtth Returned Soldiers' Association 4I» meeting lust night. Freeth wrote lrom the office of £| ?s>ydjsey Morning Herald'': Jw® congratulation that I have rettnd on my appointment to the iftenbip of Ih£ Pkbss has given me filter pitas'lie than tha one 1 i'c«k*d from your executive. L shall if you will convey ty them my %£t ihaukt. i am now a member oi «%duey branch of the New Zealand fMAed' Soldiers' Association—quite fiWße body considering that we are ¥itf from home —and 1 shall be glad & toaster to your brauch on niy ■iBMl in Christcburch in about two Jrtfcf time. "Sweral of the New Zealand newsWOT have been good enough to credit ®e*Hb having gained a commission * field. As in my Army career tty by gradual steps to be a lanceWgt» I think 1 have a clear case Rfw. Some have also stated that ***Wjiri»ed tin 'Empire' shooting reaforesaid record was only ; jJfHSjI for Sling Camp, and I am not ti5S. re t ' lat was not well and gff-ljaten long before the war ended. JiSP |>B these things to clear my W flUlMk "