RETURNED SOLDIERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21233, 13 July 1932, Page 10

RETURNED SOLDIERS.

ASSOCIATION CRITICISED.

NEW MOVEMENT SUGGESTED. The retiring president of the Onehunga Ex-servicemen's Club, Mr. N. A. Ching, announced at the club's annual meeting last evening that it was his intention to endeavour to consolidate the various exservicemen's clubs in the Auckland Province. There were 20 clubs with a membership of 5000, and he said his object was to enable ex-soldiers to speak with one voice in protesting against the treatment they were receiving from the Returned Soldiers' Association.

Mr. Ching said the officers of the association had lost touch with ex-service-mon, who had suffered in regard to pensions. Their subscriptions to the association were being 6pent • extravagantly by the executiva in Wellington in pacing unduly high salaries to officials. Mr. Ching said there were hundreds of exsoldiers who were justly entitled to relief from the canteen funds* The balance-sheet showed a credit of £BS. The annual report showed the membership to be over 600. The following officers were elected:— Patron, Mr. F. C, Soar; president, Mr. W. Farrell; vice-presidents, Messrs. E. Bellingham, H. McGahan, M. Warrington, and Roy Gordon; secretary, Mr. Claude Brown; treasurer, Mr. J. Kennedy Ross; auditor, Mr. S. Vella; committee, Messrs. T. Mitchell, F. H. Dodd, J. Crotty, W. Dilly, P. J. Guppy, H. Thornley, V. Adamg and A. W. Rogers.