R.S.A. APPROACH TO MINISTER
Use Of Memorial Halls
(New Zeaiana Press Association > WELLINGTON, November 23. The president of the Returned Services’ Association (Mr K. W. Fraser) said today that the R.S.A. had approached the AttorneyGeneral (Mr Mason) seeking a change in the law on the use of war memorial halls by Jehovah's Witnesses.
This approach was the result of the Supreme' Court ruling that Uehovah’s Witnesses could use war memorial halls. Mr Fraser said the R.S.A. had sought to get the conditions of trust of war memorial halls varied.
“Part of the condition of the Government subsidy for war memorial halls was that the control of memorial halls was to be in the keeping of the local bodies. “The local bodies had no power of discretion op the persons who could use the halls. We want them to have that discretion.” Mr Fraser said the approach to the Attorney-General had been made by letter “a matter of days” after the Supreme Court ruling.
The Government’s attitude to the approach had not yet been defined.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29060, 24 November 1959, Page 13
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