N.Z.R.S.A

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 24 June 1939, Page 2

N.Z.R.S.A

HON. W. PERRY RE-ELECTED ! . PRESIDENT

For the fourth consecutive time the * | Hon. W. Perry, M.L.C., was elected Dominion president of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association at : the conclusion of the association’s con--1 ference in Wellington esterday. Other officers were elected as follow: Dominion vice-president, Mr B. J. ' Jacobs, Palmerston North; district vicepresidents, Mr J. H. Stubbs, Northern Wairoa (Auckland district), Colonel : H. H. Holderness, Hastings (Welling- " I ton district), Mr D. W. Russell, Christ--1 church (Canterbury-Westland district), ? Mr W. D. Shelton, Gore (Otago-South- - land district); Dominion hon. treasurer, Mr J. D. Harper; Dominion executive - committee, Messrs J. D. Harper, C. W. 1 Batten, A. T. Duncan, W. E. Leadley t and Colonel A. Cowles, Mr E. C. Hale - (representing Otago-Southland), Mr i G. A. Hayden (Canterbury-Westland), 1 Mr C. O. Bell (Wellington-Nelson- ; Marlborough); Mr J. W. Kendall ■ (Auckland): representative on N.Z.E.F. . Canteen and Regimental Funds Trust ; Board, Colonel M. Aldred; representa- . tive on War Pensions Board, Mr J. D. . Harper; representatives on Soldiers’ , Civil Re-establishment League. Messrs [ J. I. Goldsmith, C. Batten and G. A. Hayden; representatives on the Great ’ War Funds Administration Committee of the Joint Council of the Order of St. i John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society, Messrs E. C. Hale and H. # B. Burdekin.