CITIZENS’ LOYAL ASSOCIATION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1081, 6 February 1918, Page 2

CITIZENS’ LOYAL ASSOCIATION.

A> meeting of the Citizens’ Loyal Associaion wu* held last* night in the Zealandia 1 :1 11. at 8 p.tn. Mr G. V. Graham was m he chair. The meeting considered Mr Hus- ■ ‘ll’s statement to the Patriotic Society on i-'riday,- (ho Ist, which was “that the f/ival Citizens’ Association was not a iciety for the benefit of New Zealand .Idlers at all ” The second rule of the .Muons’ Loyal Association was referred Jo. A states; “To assist our soldiers, from New '.ealand, or soldiers from any part of tin Empire, who may lx* in New Zealand, in ny reasonable way,” It was stall'd that lio rules of the Citizens’ Rival As-oeiatlon .ere duly published in (he “Standard, ’ anc Members 'aid they were surprised that tie Minister should have made the statemcin a- did. In reb'reuce to- his giving tie \ssoeiaiion ’ it) opportunity to meet li m, it vas pointed out. that the -ecreiarv know inching of iis arrival in town mud .Saturday norning. ,nd the Minister held the meeting n the previous night, and most of the mem hers wise in ignorance of Ids visit, to Pal nerston, Even had it, heen known, tie ■eoretarv pointi ! aut. tlu.l a> he never receives -he. “Standard” before 5.30. and sonic lines as la 'as 5.15 pan., ii. uouhl be 1111 it inpi.sdble to get their ii'.einhers logethei o meet tin Minister. If Mr liiissell wanted o meet tl.e Citizens’ Loyal Association hj hmild in ordinary courtesy have advised he secretary two or three days before hisrrivnl, >n which case he woo d certainly irtvo hint a si rung dcputalion to wait, upm 'dm. A cen-iderable iimoimt ol routine mslnr.-vs was done, end the following nov. nemla'is were added to tie* Association ii he usual way; Messrs If. Hubbard, ("haV. Mitchell, George llenrv. James Osgood fames Hanna, Arthur Wood, and Olivo Maker,