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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 47, 24 August 1923, Page 6

The Auckland Provincial Patriotic Association has decided to close the Soldiers Club i n Albert street at the end of November nest. This will'release the handsome building at present housing the cub, and the property will probably be sold and the sum realised placed to the credit of the patriotic funds. The boldiers Club was established in Auckland in 1917, and during the past seven years it has fulfilled a very useful function. . Un the advice of the management committee of the club, however, the executive of the Patriotic Association determined that its continuance on the present scale was no longer necessary, and this decision was confirmed at the annual meeting of the association in June Mat (states tho "New Zealand Herald"), iiio matter was then referred to tho. committee of the association, which has determined that there is a need for some accommodation on a limited scale tor some time at least, particularly for imbless men who require restroom facilities, lne president of the Patriotic Association,- -Mr.J. H. Gunson, stated on Tnesday that the association had decided to assist the Auckland Returned Soldiers Association in tho temporary provision of this class of accommodation, but that the responsibility for the provision and maintenance of the smaller institution would rest entirely with the -K.b.A. The Patriotic Association would resist financially, but it was' not consid-. w°d that the sustrented acqomniodation would bo nxjuy-Btffoj. tt v?r y i on g period.