VOTE FOR SOLDIERS' CLUB

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 110, 12 May 1919, Page 7

VOTE FOR SOLDIERS' CLUB

'A MATTER FOR PARLIAMENT.

(BI TELBar.AFH.~-PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

' CHRISTCHURCH, 10th May. A deputatiori from tho Returned Soldiors' Association, the Lady, Liverpool Fund, and other bodies waited on tho Hon. G. W. Russell this morning to press a claim that tho sum of £3000-voted by tho Lady Liverpool Fund Committee to tho Soldiers' Club building fund should bo validated by tho Minister. Introducing the deputation, the Mayor said that the Minister was asked to iind a way out of tho "red tapo" that prevented the paying over of the grant. The deputation asked that immediate sanction bo given to the transfer, and, if necessary, statutory authority be given later for the transfer, «

A nurabor of other prominent citizens spoko in favour of the transfer being authorised.

Replying-, the Minister said that the strongest point raised was that the club would provide accommodation foi- medically unfit. men who wanted something in tho nature of a homo, but tho legal position had to be observed. The matter was one.for Parliament to settle. Ho vrotdil consult the Government as to whether amending legislation, should bo brought down to provide that such fundi might bo used not only for establishing clubs, but also for maintaining them.

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