DIGGERS' INTERESTS
NUHAKA R.S.A. MEETS DEFENCE SUGGESTION (Herald Correspondent.) The executive of the Nuhaka Returned Soldiers' Association held its monthly meeting on Friday evening, those attending being Messrs. J. Goldstone, president, W. Mitchell, R. Bluck, Hogg, K. Runga, J. Todd, F. T. Woodley, F. H. Young, and G. D. Tod, secretary. In reference to the defence of New Zealand, the following recommendation was forwarded to the Gisborne R.S.A.: "That youths of military age, in districts remote from training centres, be registered as territorials, and be required to attend a local defence rifle club range for a set number of shoots during the year under instruction and supervision of officers of the club, and that they be supplied with rifles and ammunition during their term of service." After nearly three years of constant battling the Nuhaka R.S.A. has been successful in procuring a Public Works hut for a Maori returned soldier on the Mahia who is suffering from the effects of service in the Great War. Messrs. R. Bluck, J. Todd and K. Runga were appointed to see that this matter was arranged satisfactorily. The question of finance for the entertainment of Australian returned soldiers who will visit New Zealand in 1940 will be discussed at the annual meeting, which will be held on Friday, April 7. The membership now stands at 50 and as the Gisborne R.S.A. holds the seventh place in New Zealand with 595 financial members it behoves all Diggers to attend, and join the association, if not already a financial member.
The president staled that he would not be seeking re-election for the coming year as he was leaving the district. His term of office had been pleasant, a good committee and a splendid secretary making the work easy. Mr. G. D. Tod, secretary, and Mr. F. H. Young, past-president, spoke of Mr. Goldstone's pending departure and the work he had done for the Nuhaka association and wished him "good luck and good health wherever he went."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19886, 13 March 1939, Page 14
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