RETURNED SERVICES’ ASSOCIATION

Press, Volume LXXXIIi, Issue 25214, 19 June 1947, Page 3

RETURNED SERVICES’ ASSOCIATION

MR C. O. BELL ELECTED PRESIDENT (P.A.) WELLINGTON, June 18. The following officers were elected at the annual conference of the New Zealand Returned Services’ Association:—president. Mr C. O. Bell (.Wellington); past-president, Mr B. J. Jacobs (Palmerston North); vice-pre-sident, Major-General H. K. Kippenberger (Wellington); hon. treasurer, Mr E. C. Hale (Wellington). The executive committee was constituted thus —district vice-presidents, Northland, Mr J. D. Gerard (Whangarei); Auckland district, Mr S. Vella (Auckland); Waikato-King Country, Bay of Plenty, Mr B. Malone (Te Awamutu); Wellington-Taranaki, West Coast, Mr H. B. Burdekin (Levin); WellingtonEast Coast, Mr N. W. Tilley (Takapau); Nelson-Marlborough, Mr R. L. West (Nelson); Canterbury, Mr C. Miln (Christchurch); Otago-South - land, Mr L. A. Lopdell (Invercargill); district representatives: Auckland (including Northland), Messrs K. W. Fraser and K. W. R. Glasgow; WaikatoKing Country-Bay of Plenty. Messrs M. R. Jones and J. A. D. Ritchie; Wel-lington-Taranaki-West Coast, Mr J. H. McKay; Wellington-East Coast, Messrs P. G. H. Bennett and M. J. Mason; Canterbury-Nelson-Marlborough-West-land, Messrs E. F. Willcox and T. G. Taylor; Otago-Southland, Messrs K. Cameron and D. F. Bauchop; other members, Messrs W. D. Haydon, E. C. W. Nathan, C. G. Tustin, A. R. Robins, G. Bruce. N.Z.R.S.A. representatives on other bodies were elected as follows: N. Canteen and Regimental Funds Trust Board, Colonel M. Aidred; War Pensions Board, Messrs J. D. Harper and E. F. Willcox; Disabled Servicemen's Re-establishment League, Messrs E. C. Hale, D. F. Bauchop, and E. C. W. Nathan; £reat War Funds Administrative Committee and the joint Council of the Order of St. John and the Red Cross Society, Messrs E. C. Hale and H. B. Burdekin; Heritage, Mr D. F. Bauchop.