RETURNED MEN

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 77, 28 September 1938, Page 14

RETURNED MEN

OFFER OF HELP

LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER

The following letter was forwarded to the Prime Minister today by headquarters of the New Zealand Returned, Soldiers' Association:— "At a meeting of the Dominion executive committee of this association held last evening, after due consideration of the troubled state of affairs in Europe, the following resolution was unanimously adopted for forwarding to you: That the Dominion executive committee offer the Government the fullest co-operation of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association should a national emergency arise in connection with the European situation. * [ The following resolution was carried at a meeting of the executive committee of the Wellington Returned Soldiers' Association held last night:— "That the Wellington Returned Soldiers' Association desires the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association to inform the authorities of its fullest co-operation in any project for the defence of the country and desires to be advised of any way in which it could assist the Government at this time." The majority of the suburban auxiliary committees of the Wellington Returned Soldiers' Association have already sponsored the formation of platoons, and the sixty returned soldiers, for searchlight duty at Fort Dorset have been enrolled.