DEFENCE STAFF
PROPOSED REDUCTION
R.S.A.- PROTEST
The proposed reduction in the Defence Staff was discussed at a meeting of the Dominion Executive of the New Zealand Beturned Soldiers' Association last evening, and tho following resolution was adopted unanimously:— "That this Dominion Executive has read with dismay statements in the Press indicating an intention on tho part of the Government to dispense with the services of a large number of members of the N.Z. Permanent Forces (officers and other ranks), most of them men who actively served in the Great War, and some of them men who gave up their civil avocations to take positions in the N.Z. Permanent Forces after their return from war, and emphatically protests against the dismissal of any men who served their country in the war." The resolution lias been communicated to the Minister of Defence with the roquest that it receive his most earnest consideration and support.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 133, 3 December 1930, Page 12
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