MONEY FOR BUILDING
R.S.A. Executive’s Proposal A proposal that members of the Christchurch Return°d Services’ Association be asked to contribute 2s 6d a week for two years to help to finance t.he three-storeyed building which the association hopes to build was adopted by the association’s executive last evening. The only dissentient. Mr R. A Nightingale, described the scheme as pure fantasv Outlining *he orooo'-il. the president (Mr A. S Farrar) said that if each member contributed £l3 over the two years the assoc ; »*ton would receive about £96 000
Christchurch had no war memorial for the Second World War. he said, and a building financed by the Returned Services’ Association perhaos could serve as a war memorial, and be . named Anzac House The plans for the buildinc orovided for a floor space of 17.000 sq ft. which could be rented At present prices, this could bring in an annual gross rental of £13.900 From this money the association could afford to employ a full-time social worker.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29894, 7 August 1962, Page 17
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