RETURNED SOLDIERS

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 225, 21 June 1939, Page 11

RETURNED SOLDIERS

Association Conference Opens Today REVIEW OF REMITS Atteuded by SO delegates t'J® 1 branches throughout New Zealand, the annual conference of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association will be held in Wellington this week. It will be opened this morning by the Gov-ernor-General, Lord Galway. Also piesent at the opening will be the mayor of Wellington, Mr. Hislop. The president of the association, Mr. Perry, M.L.C., will preside. After the formal opening the morning will be occupied with the presentation of the annual report and routine business. Shortly before noon the delegates will march to the Wellington Citizens’ War Memorial to deposit there a wreath. The afternoon will probably be devoted entirely to the consideration of remits by the committees which will be set up for the purpose, and tonight the headquarters of the association and the Wellington branch will entertain the delegates socially. The conference will resume tomorrow and may continue till Friday. Fewer remits than usual are to be laid before the conference, there being 58. compared with more than a hundred last year. They come under the headings of pensions, lands, general association matters and defence. An important subject that Is expected to be debated is the effect of the Social Security Act on war pensions.. The observance of Anzac Day will be brought into discussion by some of the remits. Representations on behalf of limbless ex-soldiers are expected to be received during the conference from the New Zealand Expeditionary Force Amputees’ Association, the first conference of which will open in Wellington this morning. Two delegates from each of the four limbless men’s district associations will discuss matters affecting the amputees. It is stated that with the men’s increasing age, the financial position of some has deteriorated out of proportion to the pensions they receive. The conference is expected to lay before the R.S.A. a case which the parent body may present to the authorities.