DEFENCE LEAGUE.
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Oct. 15. With a view to establishing the New Zealand Defence League on a national basis, a provisional meeting of delegates . from the various branches already formed was held to-day, Hon. W. Perry presiding. He said the mission of the league was to educate publie opinion which, despite the serious situation, would be a long and uiilicult task The object of the meeting was to lay the foundations of the league, and to establish the organisation on a thoroughly democratic and national basis throughout the Dominion. The meeting decided that the headquarters he in Wellington and Air Perry was appointed provisional Dominion president. Branches in each of the four main centres are to each elect a vice-president. The provisional executive is Mr Perry, Mr W . H. Barnard, Mr E E Muir, and Mr A. E. Goiton, the hitter of whom is the lion, secretary.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 273, 16 October 1936, Page 3
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