MILITARY TATTOO

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1936, Page 13

MILITARY TATTOO

DECISION OF VETERANS

AMhe monthly meeting of the tive committee of the Wellington South African War Veterans' Association, presided over by Captain J. J. Clark, members decided to associate with the Returned Soldiers' Association and the Legion of Frontiersmen in assisting the Central Military Command with an art union and grand searchlight tattoo, which will shortly be promoted in aid of regimental funds, under the Central Command. A vote of thanks was accorded Colonel Burton Mabin for his gift to the association of a framed photograph of the presentation of a sword of honour to 'Lord Kitchener, at Cape Town, in 1902, after the successful termination of the Boer War. Some time ago an inscribed plate was presented to the s.s. Waiwera, recording the fact that its predecessor had carried the first New Zealand Contingent to South Africa, and, as I the vessel was in port at the weekend, I Captain Clark and some members of the executive took the opportunity of making a courtesy call. In addition to members of the family, and many representatives of the Early Settlers' Association, at the funeral of the late Sergeant-Major E. Bezar last Saturday, the Wellington South African War Veterans' Association was represented by its president, Captain J. J. Clark, and Messrs. W. T. C Wortley and E. M. Woolley, executive members. The deceased, the last surviving "Die Hard," was a general favourite with members of the South African Association, with whom he was closely associated during his lifetime. A fitting tribute to the military record of the late SergtMajor was. the provision of a firing party for the funeral, supplied by the Trentham military authorities.