RSA MEMBERSHIP

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27443, 17 July 1950, Page 6

RSA MEMBERSHIP

Sir, —The statement of the president Of the Dunedin RSA in your recent issue that the older members of the association were leaving it is no doubt quite true. The RSA’s standing in the public reached a particularly low mark last year when the executive fought against everything the disabled members asked them to assist In. The RSA was formed for one purpose only, and that was to look after the welfare of our disabled comrades. In last year’s annual report the president castigated all those, including old members, who had failed to renew their subscriptions and failed to see that it was the unfortunate tactics of himself and his executive towards our war disabled comrades that was wrecking the foundation we laid over 30 years ago. If the president of the RSA or his executive expect us to continue to subscribe in money to assist them in their obstruction of our disabled comrades’ interests then they underestimate our intelligence. I understand the RSA conference in Wellington has been asked twice recently to assist in calling a conference of war disabled to discuss their own affairs and each time they have refused. That refusal was pur* obstruction and they wonder why th* membership is falling.—l am, etc., Resignation. [Abridged.—Ed. ODT.]