QUARTERLY MEETING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26773, 17 May 1948, Page 3

QUARTERLY MEETING

Returned Servicemen About 300 members attended the annual meeting of the Oamaru branch of the Returned Services’ Association, which was held in the Drill Hall on Saturday night. Mr I. T. Catto was in the chair. Mr N. H. Colquhoun’s notice of motion— ’’ That quarterly meetings of the association be held, and that two delegates be appointed to attend the annual council of the N.Z.R.S.A., and that they bo required to report to a general meeting of the Oamaru R.S.A. at the first quarterly meeting after their return from Wellington,” was carried. Mr G. P. Cuttriss's notice of motion relating to the proposal to devote the amount held in the R.S.A. Building Fund to the development of club rooms established by the 2nd N.Z.E.F. Association and to assisting the Services Bowling Club to lay down a green and to erect suitable buildings was ruled out of order by the chairman. If the motion were carried, Mr Catto said, it would rescind all the minutes' of every quarterly, general or special meeting of the association since its inception. It was decided to support the executive’s recommendation that the New Zealand Association should press

for universal military training. In advocating the conservation of the association’s funds until a time when the association might not be as financial as it was to-day, Mr N. H. Colquhoun criticised the executive’s action in spending large slims each year on printing, advertising, postages and stationery. In 1947, be said, the balance sheet showed that £135 2s was spent, as well as £l5B in 1948. He claimed that the association could not incur this expense indefinitely. Mr Colquhoun also advocated the transfer of approximately £SOO from a non-interest-earning account to the Post Office Savings Bank.