ENCOURAGING RECRUITS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22590, 21 December 1938, Page 7

ENCOURAGING RECRUITS

ASSOCIATION FORMED IN CANTERBURY

OFFICERS ELECTED AND RULES ADOPTED

An enthusiastic meeting attended by more than 50 prominent businessmen and local body members yesterday adopted the first set of rules and elected the first officers for the Territorial Association of Canterbury—a new organisation designed to assist the defence policy of the Government and, particularly, to encourage recruiting for the volunteer forces. The Mayor, Mr R. M. Macfarlane, presided at the meeting, and he and other speakers emphasised the need there was for more recruits for the volunteer land forces. The election of officers resulted:— Patron, the Mayor, Mr R. M. Macfarlane; president, Colonel H. C. Hurst; vice-presidents, Sir R. Heaton Rhodes, Colonel G. J. Smith, Colonel P. C. Fenwick, Colonel R. C. Wickens, Colonel J. Murphy, and Messrs Norton Francis and John Deans; honorary secretary, Mr F. C. Facer; honorary treasurer, Mr J. Roy Smith; executive . committee —chairman, Colonel H. C. Hurst; committee, Messrs ». D. Acland, O. F. Baker, J. S. Barnett, A. M. Carpenter, J. Collins, D. Clive Crozier, R. A. Cuthbert, H. B. Duckworth, Major W. E. S. Furby,

1 Messrs S. G. Holland, M.P., V. E. Ham- ' ilton, C. J. Curtis, J. L. Hay, A. E. 1 Kincaid, W. L. King, W. R. Lascelles, 1 H. S. Lawrence, H. H. Living--1 stone, T. H. McCombs, M.P., W. ' S. Mac Gibbon, R. T. McMillan, ' J. K. Moloney, A. E. Haynes, H. E. Otley. C. V. Quigley, T. H. Langford, D. W. Russell, J. Roy Smith, J. G. L. Vernon, H. S. Williams; ex officio, Major H. M. Foster, N.Z.S.C. Association's Aims The objects of the association were set out as follows in the rules, which were outlined to the meeting by Mr J. K. Moloney. They were:—To encourage and assist in recruiting; to encourage employers to grant facilities for men to attend parades, courses, and camps; to raise funds for the purposes of the association; to assist units in sports and social activities, and generally to help units; to support the territorial force for the time being in existence without regard to policy questions. The rules set the association's district out as: the area bounded in the north by the Clarence river, in the south by the Waitaki river, in the west by the Southern Alps, and in the east by the sea. Mr Moloney formally moved that the rules as drawn up by a special sub-committee be adopted. The resolution was seconded by Mr D. W. Russell, and carried unanimously without further discussion.