About 300 applications for membership—probably the largest number ever put before the association—were handed by the. Christchurch Returned Services' Association this week, said Mr D. W. Russsell, president of the association, at .the seventh annual reunion dinner of the Canterbury-West-land War Amputees' Association last evening. The membership of the association was nearly 11,000, and the association had never before been ?, er J " 1 J Public estimation, Mr Rusfu 11 u < l ded - Tne reason f °r that, he thought, was largely because the association was non-political.
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24736, 29 November 1945, Page 6
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