GRATEFUL VETERANS

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 104, 26 January 1933, Page 9

GRATEFUL VETERANS

Association Thanked for Christmas Hampers Thirty-one letters of grateful appreciation were received by the executive of the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association last night from families of returned soldiers to whom the association had distributed Christmas hampers. An invitation was received from the Upper Hutt branch to attend the annual picnic at TreuthanCou February 12, and it was decided that as many members of the association as could do so would attend. An invitation from the Rev. W. B. Scott to attend a church parade at Trinity Methodist Church, Riddlford Street, on April 23, was accepted. Tlie necessity for Increasing the membership of the association was stressed by several speakers, and it was decided to,request the sub-commit-tee, which had been set up to bring down a report at next meeting. On the motion of Mr. C. A. L. Treadwell, a sub-committee, consisting of Colonel Avery, the Rev. W. BramwellScott, and the mover, was set up to endeavour to raise *£3o toward erecting a tablet in Walton parish church, London, to perpetuate the memory of the 21 New Zealand soldiers who died in Walton Hospital during' the Great War.