RETURNED SOLDIERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23381, 24 June 1939, Page 17

RETURNED SOLDIERS

PRESIDENT RE-ELECTED OTHER DOMINION OFFICERS [BT TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Friday For the fourth consecutive time the Hon. W. Perry, M.L.C., was elected president of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association at the conclusion of the association's conference to-day. Other officers were elected as follows: —Dominion vice-president, Mr. 13. J. Jacobs (Palmerston North)} district vice-president:;, Messrs. J. H. Stubbs (Northern Wairoa-Auckland district), Colonel k. 11. Holderness (HastingsWellington district), D. W. Russell

(Christchurch -Canterbury-Westland district), W. D. Shelton (Gore-Otago-Southland district); treasurer, Mr. J. D. Harper; Dominion executive committee, Messrs. J. D.« Harper, C. W. Batten, A. T. Duncan, W. B. Leadlev and Colonel A. Cowles, Messrs. E. C. Hale (representing Otago-Southland), G. A. Hayden (Canterbury-Westland), C. (). Bell (Wellington-Nelson-Marl-borough), and J. W. Kendall (Auckland); representative on N.Z.K.F. Canteen and Regimental Funds Trust Board. Colonel M. Ald red; representative on War Pensions Board, Mr. .1. K. Harper; representatives on Soldiers' Civil He-establishment League, Messrs. P. I. Golsmith, C. Batten and G. A. Hayden; representatives on Great War Funds administration committee ol the joint council of the Order of St John and the New Zealand lied Cross Society, Messrs. E. C. Hale and H. B. Burdekin.