SECOND DIVISION LEAGUE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 58, 3 December 1918, Page 6

SECOND DIVISION LEAGUE

PROTECTION OF SOLDIERS AND SOLDIERS' WIVES. ' The National Executive of the Second Division League met last evening, Mr. R. A. Armstrong presiding. Appreciation was expressed of the action of tlie Government in making provision in the War Legislation Amendment Bill for the protection of soldiers' wivea who are. tenants in rented houses. The Supplementary Order Paper giving powers for the making of regulations protecting soldiers in relation to\the accumulations of instalments in. table mortgages,'etc., was also approved, and the hope was expressed that Parliament would give early and full effect to the necessary legislation. A vote of sympathy x/na passed with the many relatives of members of tho league who had succumbed during tho epidemic. The president referred to the fact that among the more prominent members were the late Mx. E. J. Barry. Mayor of Ohakune, who was president of the local league, and Ifr. G. Spencer Cla-phamr of Hastings, both of whom had taken an early and keen interest in the affairs of tho league, Another loss had been sustained l>y the death of Dr. Fergus Paterson, of Geraldine, on active service.' Dr. Paterso* had been a tower of strength to tlin league at its inception, and had ably represented its views before tlie members' of Parliament and the Cabinet at the time of the first Dominion conference.