DISABLED SERVICEMEN'S LEAGUE
TRADE TRAINING RESTRICTED LACK OF FINANCE (P.A.) AUCKLAND, March 3., A strong protest against the Disabled Servicemen's League having to refuse to admit nearly a dozen veterans of this war for trade and other training because of a lack of finance was expressed to-day by Mr A. P. Postlewaite, president of the Auckland R.S.A. and a member of the local league- committee. ; Mr Postlewaite criticised the financial structure of the league, whose activities and ability to take in disabled men were limited by a bank overdraft allowed bv headquarters in Heilington. The league in Auckland, lie said, had no capital and was given no Government grant, and yet had to meet interest charges on . the bank overdraft. The league was 'hampered in the purchase of equipment and in maintaining instructors in trades and crafts because of this, and the position was'"'becoraing intolerable; It was a disgrace to the country that, because of a ladk of finance; one of the country's most sacred to its lighting men had to be repudiated.'
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Evening Star, Issue 25425, 5 March 1945, Page 7
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