RETURNED MEN PROTEST.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20086, 30 April 1927, Page 12

RETURNED MEN PROTEST.

SLIGHTED AT ROYAL VISIT. NO INTRODUCTION TO THE DUKE. (Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND, April 29. Who were more entitled to meet the Duke, returned soldiers or city councillors and their wives) was the question asked by Major Simeon at last night’s meeting of the Auckland Returned Soldiers’ "Association. Major Simeon said that he did not intend his remarks to reliect in any way upon his Royal Highness but upon those responsible for the the arrangements in connection witli the iluvaj visit. Upon that occasion, said Major Simoon, 600 returned men paraded, init, had been given no opportunity of meeting the Duke. The Chairman (Mr S. Austin Carr) said that theie had apparently been some tonfusion in regard to the reception arrangements. As a matter of fact, it had been a very difficult matter for him to arrange for a parade of returned men at all. It was only by dint of persistent application to the' authorities, he said, that the necessary arrangements had eventually been made. Mr Carr added (hat just'as the Duke was moving in the. direction of the returned men the councillors and others bore down on him and carried him off. '•[ consider flint these 600 returned men who paraded were slighted.” said Major Simeon. “I, for one, am not going (o be dragged at the heels of any councillors or !iar!»our board members.'’