WITHOUT CONSENT
APPOINTMENT-OF TRUSTEE
The Hutt Valley R.S.A. recently asked the Petone Borough Council to support the suggestion that the proposed R.S.A.. building in. Lower Hutt should be accepted as a Hutt Valley District, war memorial. The suggestion ,was not acceptable to the Petone council, though it expressed sympathy with the proposal to erect an administrative centre 'for the R.S.A. It was pointed out that Petone was already considering a proposal for a war memorial for the borough.
Since then the R.S.A. has decided to vest the hall in a board of trustees arid it was recently announced that Mr. H. Green, the Mayor, of Petone, had been- appointed to that board.
Mr. Green has sent the following letter to the R.S.A. premises committee: "Regarding the appointment of the Mayor of Petone as a trustee for the proposed R.S.A. memorial building, in ".Lower Hutt, I intend to bring the matter before the next meeting of the Petone Borough Council for consideration. .
"In view of the decision made by my council that it could not wholeheartedly support, the project, I consider that your action in appointing me a trustee without first obtaining my consent or the consent of my council was completely unjustified. I personally am being placed in the position of not only being identified with the project, but actively sponsoring it, whereas, while I firmly approve of. the necessity of securing adequate headquarters for the - Hutt Valley R.S.A., I consider the present proposals altogether too ambitious and costly. "The question of a district war memorial- insofar as it concerns Petone is a matter in which the citizens will have to be consulted and the erection of R.S.A. buildings in Lower Hutt as the basis of a district war memorial is totally contrary to the views expressed at the last meeting of the Petone Borough Couifcil." The ' matter was also further considered, at a meeting of the Petone council last evening, and the action of the Mayor was endorsed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 135, 5 December 1944, Page 6
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329WITHOUT CONSENT Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 135, 5 December 1944, Page 6
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