VELDT VETERANS NOT THE “FORGOTTEN MEN”
(P.A.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Mar. 4. “Our job is to help underdogs of our association. Sometimes it is thought we are the forgotten men, but 1 assure you all the Ministers of the Crown and M.P.’s know we have not forgotten ourselves or our men who are in distress,” said Mr. E. J. Harvey, of Blenheim, Dominion president of the South African War Veterans Association when opening the conference of delegates from 23 branches in New Plymouth this morning. “More than 400 of the total membership of 1838, many with their wives, packed the hall for the opening. Later the delegates met to consider formal business.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22887, 5 March 1949, Page 8
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