STILL GROWING

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 264, 4 August 1936, Page 6

STILL GROWING

South African Veterans’ Association

The silver jubilee meeting of the Wellington South African War Veterans’ Association was attended by CO members on Saturday night, the president (Captain J. J. Clark) stating that it spoke well for the virility of the association that it was still making new members. Lieutenant-Colonel F. B. Mabin expressed members’ thanks to Captain Clark and the executive for bringing the association into the good position it was in. There was not much to spend, but sufficient, through Captain Clark’s generosity in presenting, so much equipment for . the spacious rooms the association now occupied. The coronation was a forthcoming event, and it would be a grand gesture by the Government to remember the South African veterans by making it possible for them to be represented. He presented Captain Clark with a framed photograph from the executive. The Dominion president (Mr. J. I. Goldsmith) .said he had visited and found an ideal place the veterans' home at Auckland, on which, there had been adverse comment. There were 13 South African and 12 Great War veterans there. There could be accommodated 46 to 50. There was a home there for any veteran in receipt of a pension who was of good character and habits.

The annual report stated that many calls had been made on the emergency committee for relief of. distressed comrades and £9l was distributed in this way. The committee, witji Captain C. F. Bishop as chairman, was deserving of thanks for its good work. Several members had secured pensions under the recent Veterans’ Allowance Act, credit being due to Captain Bishop for successfully piloting many applications • through the proper channels. Mr. W. T. C. Wortley did good work visiting veterans in hospital. The monthly supply of tobacco and cigarettes to 14 comrades at Porirua mental sanatorium had been continued. Regret was expressed at the deaths of Messrs. W. Laskey (Kitchener’s Horse), E. C. Burn (Eighth Contingent), J. G. Cook (First Contingent), and W. H. Walker. The election of officers resulted: Patron, Sir R. Heaton Rhodes, K.B.E. ; president, Captain J. J. Clark; vicepresidents, Lieutenant-Colonel I. B. Mabin, Colonel J. S. Sandle, Messrs. H. J. Murdoch and J. I. Goldsmith; padre, Rev. Canon Percival James; honorary solicitor, Hon. William Perry, M.L.C.; honorary secretary, Mr. P. C. Peters; honorary treasurer, Mr. B. C. Cull; honorary auditor, Mr. J. L. Arcus, F.1.A.(N.Z.); committee, Colonel G Mitchell, D. 5.0.. Messrs, de Launay, R. J. H. Aldrich, W. T. C. Wortley, J. R Kessell, R. Anderson, A. G. Johnstone; E. M. Woolley, 10. 11. Ashenden, J. Mulcahy, J. Cowdray. J. Nicholson.; quartermaster, Mr. W. T. C. M ortley, Assistant quartermaster, Mr. A. J. Morris; emergency committee, Captain Bishop, Messrs. Cull and Peters. ;