R.S.A. Re-Elects President

Northern Advocate, 30 July 1938, Page 4

R.S.A. Re-Elects President

[Special to “Northern Advocate .’’l , WELLINGTON. Tills Day. I A tribute to the president, the Hon. j W. Perry, M.L.C., was paid by the Dominion Council of the New Zealand Returned. Soldiers' Association at the annual meeting at Wellington yesterday". when he was unanimously reelected as president. 1 A motion was carried expressing, complete and unanimous loyalty to him i as president, and confidence in him j and his services to the association. ; Officers The election of other officers resulted: —Dominion vice-president, Mr. B. J. Jacobs (Palmerston North); district. vice-presidents, Dr. J. L. Frazerhurst (Auckland), Messrs. E. J. Carr (Wellington-Nelson-Marlborough), R. Paterson (Canterbury-Westland), and W. F. Forrester (Otago-Southland); Dominion treasurer, Mr. J. D. Harper; Dominion executive committee, Col. A. Cowles. Messrs. C. W. Batten, A. T. Duncan, H. D. Burdekin, D. A. Hayden, G. T. Hall, J. W. ICendall and Captain C. F. Bishop (South African War Veterans’ Association); representatives on Canteen and Regimental Funds Trust Board, Colonel M. Aldred; representative on Dominion executive of the Farmers’ Union. Mr. W. Horrobin; representative on the War Pensions Boai’d. Mi'. J. D. Harper; representatives on the Soldiers’ Civil Re-estab-lishment League, Messrs. H. B. Burdekin, J. I. Goldsmith and G. A. Hayden; representatives on Great War Funds Administration Committee of the Joint Council of the Order of St. John and New Zealand Red Cross Society. Messrs. E. C. Halo and H. B. Burdekin. Children’s Holiday The president reported that he had received a letter from the Australian Imperial Force Wives and Children's Holiday Association inviting 50 New Zealand sons of returned soldiers to attend the furlough house camp at Sydney next year. The whole cost of their stay in Sydney and entertainment there would be borne by the Australian Imperial Force, but the cost of boat fare and a man in chai'ge of the party would have to be raised in New Zealand. The invitation was referred to the incoming executive.