Break With R.S.A. Headquarters?

Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 270, 2 November 1940, Page 7

Break With R.S.A. Headquarters?

AUCKLAND HINT LACK OF CO-OPERATION DEPLORED Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Nov. 1. -me time is fast approaching when tjie Dominion headquarters of the Returned Soldiers’ Association will have to toe the line or Auckland will have to take some other action,” said the president, Mr J. W. Kendall, at the quarterly meeting of the Auckland Returned Soldiers’ Association last night. Mr Kendall said he did not want to see a bteak with headquarters if it was possible to avoid it, but if the time came when co-operation was not being obtained, he would be the first to support a break. This announcement was greeted with applause. Mr Kendall pointed out that headquarters received 2d for every poppy sold in the Auckland province, and 1/3 out of every subscription. If all returned soldiers* organisations in the province could be welded into a solid mass, headquarters might revise its present attitude. Headquarters had refused point blank to take any action -regarding a deduction of the national and social security tax from the pay of the National Military Reserve Class 2, which was also liable for income-tax, making a total deduction of 4/9 in the £. A further case was cited by the president, in which the Auckland association had opposed a grant of £SO by the Auckland Provincial Patriotic Council to a widow in receipt of income of £250 a year. Headquarters had been asked for support, but had replied that the confidential minutes of any patriotic body should not be circulated among other bodies. “This means that I am not free to report on the proceedings of the Patriotic Council, on which I am the association’s representative,” said Mr Kendall. “In any case the minute? concerned were not confidential.”