NEW ZEALAND LEGION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21577, 23 August 1933, Page 11

NEW ZEALAND LEGION

OUTLINE OF PROPOSALS APPEAL FOR PUBLIC SUPPORT An outlino of the organisation of tho appeal of the New Zealand Legion for tho support of the public of Auckland was given by Mr. John Stewart, formerly of Auckland, and now of Wellington, in an address at tho Grafton Library last evening. Mr. L. F Rudd presided. Mr. Stewart said tho appeal would commence with a meeting in tho Town Hall on Friday, at which the president, Dr. Campbell Begg, would enunciate the legion's plans and proposals as far as they had been completed. Public meetings would bo held in as many centres as possible, and the nucleus membership in each locality would bo responsible for tho organisation. At the meetings, however, thero would bo a call for volunteers to serve on the provisional committees. Two representatives from each committee would form the divisional council, which would elect its own officers and also its representatives to tho national council, the supremo power in the movement. . No proposals for reform in any connection, and no statement of policy would bo recognised by the legion as official until it had been examined and approved bv the national council, tho members of which were tho representatives of the people. It was thus apparent that in its formation the legion was democratic. "Tho legion will not bo stampoded into tho adoption of any proposals which have not received the fullest consideration," Mr. Stewart said. Tho legion was r.ot content to leave tho decision to the national council. It demanded the considered opinion of every individual group or centre on each proposal. Tho 700 units throughout the Dominion were grouped into 18 divisions, each of which set up five research committees, one to deal with each of the following subjects:—Government reform, economics, currency, land and unemployment, and emergency.