FEILDING AND DISTRICT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 158, 5 June 1937, Page 4

FEILDING AND DISTRICT

R.S.A

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

.. The executive committee of the Feilding Returned Soldiers’ Association held its monthly meeting on Thursday evening, when Mr Bruce McLeod presided. The chairman welcomed Mr Jewell a.s the new secretary, and Mr Donaldson as a newly appointed committeeman. An invitation from the Cheltenham Rifle Club for a ihatch between teams representing both bodies, to be fired on the Cheltenham range, was accepted, the Cheltenham Club undertaking to provide the rifles and ammunition. Mr R. Buchanan and the secretary were appointed to arrange a team for the match, to be fired under service conditions. The secretary was instructed to revise and bring up-to-date the roll of members of the association. Messrs McLeod and Hay were appointed the association’s delegates to the Dominion Conference of the R.S.A.. to be held in "Wellington commencing on June 23. The secretary’s action in lodging an objection to the association being cited as a party to the musicians’ award was endorsed.

The secretary was authorised to confer with Miss D. Miller, secretary of the Feilding advisory committee of the National War Funds Council, with a view to making a financial grant to a member who is seriously ill in the Palmerston North Hospital. It was decided to make a grant of £2O for the purpose of restituting the finding of relief work for local returned soldiers, and Mr C. H. Tate undertook to put the scheme into operation again. A balance-sheet in connection with the recent Coronation Ball was presented and disclosed, tha.t a profit of £ls 15s had been made. It was decided to make a donation of £2 2s to the King George V Memorial Fund from tbo ball fund. Votes of thanks were passed to all who had assisted the committee in connection with preparations for the ball. '