RETURNED SOLDIERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21799, 14 May 1934, Page 11

RETURNED SOLDIERS

WAIKATO MEN MEET SOCIAL REUNION HELD [from our own correspondent! HAMILTON, Sunday There was an attendance of 200 at the annual reunion of the Waikato Returned Soldiers' Association last night. Mr. N. S. Johnson presided and the principal guest was Colonel Sir Stephen Allen, of Morrinsville. All parts of the Auckland Province were represented. A touching tribute was paid to the memory of those who fell in the war. When the toast, "Departed Comrades," was proposed, the company stood in silence while Mr. K. P. Eade feelingly sang Stevenson's "Requiem." Mr. W. Seavill proposed the toast of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and Returned Soldiers' Association. Colonel Allen, in replying to the toast, said he regarded the New Zealand Expeditionary Force who served in France and the New Zealand Mounted Brigade who served in the East as among the finest forces in the British Army. The speaker paid a tribute to the management of the Returned Soldiers' Association. Some branches, however, were apt to be led away by cranks and entered into discussions" on all sorts of things. He considered the association should confine its activities to the helping of its members in every-day life in the many difficulties met with by the men in times like the present, and in arranging social reunions.