SECOND DIVISION LEAGUE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 197, 9 May 1918, Page 4

SECOND DIVISION LEAGUE

DELEGATION TO WAIT ON MINISTERS. By Telegraph-Prcss Association. Timaru, May 8. Tho Lyceum Theatre to-night was packed by an orderly gathering of women and Second Division men. The Mayor (Mr. Haling) presided, and Messrs. ,T. Craigio and J. Anstey, H.P.'e, wero present. Mr. E. A. Armstrong, president of the National League Federation, gavo a long address, and was frequently applauded. Hβ 6tated that it was intended to hold a Dominion conference in Wellington on May 22, and a delegation would wait on Ministers to ask that the requests of the Second Division League bo given effect to, in justice to dependants, and if Ministers said tho proposals wero unsound they would be asked- to submit a better scheme. The delegation would demand a definite statement, and would accept no indefinite promise. This statement was loudly applauded. Besolutions were passed in effect as follows:—(1) Demanding that the Government immediately grant the demands of tho league; (2) the wife arid children of a Second Divieion reservist on ectivo eervico shall have the eanio right to decent living and comfort us was enjoyed by thewife and children when the reservist was at homo; (8) whilst'a strong feeling exists in favour of a general election, tho meeting urges the Government to adopt tho less disturbing course of a referendum on the Second Division League requests.

RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT GTSBORNE. By Telegraph-Press Association. Gisborne, Mayiß. At a meeting of the Second fiivieiun League to-aight there was a very full' discussion of the various aspects of the recruiting question. Tho following reso. lutions were carried unanimously—'That the league demands from , tho Government the irreducible minimum arrived at by the league in the matter of allowances to dependants of Boldiers, and fail; ing that a genoral election bo demanded | that the custom of depriving dependants of soldiers of any portion of their allowances because the soldiers have been guilty of a breach of the military regulations be discontinued; that the Second Division League insists that in no circumstances should the system of three clear months' notice after medical examination be abandoned." It was also decided to send a delegate to tho Wellington conference.