SOUTH AFRICAN VETERANS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19897, 27 March 1939, Page 2

SOUTH AFRICAN VETERANS

GISBORNE BRANCH MEETS - PARADE AND REUNION The monthly meeting of the Gis,borne 'branch of the South. African -War Veterans’ Association was held on Saturday evening. Veteran J. Munro presiding in the absence of the president. rt Information was received - that Mr. Robert N. Todd, Invercargill, who was going Home on a holiday trip, had offered to represent the association a‘. the Imperial conference in England. ‘Letters of introduction, and an official letter had been forwarded .to him. The had asked, ■Mr. Todd assistance 8 fo be ex-service-alt Zealand pecuniary benefits enlisting from this The general R.S.A., Wellington, the wai graves in South receiving satisfactory annual grant from the Funds Council had been until the capitation .returns hSßbeen received from the various branches distribution could not be made to them. • The*official history of the Boer War. it was suggested, was a subject for the annual conference to deal with. Mr. G. W. Crawford and Mr. E. A. Knights had been appointed hon. secretaries ol the Palmerston North and Wellington branches respectively. Major T. P. Halpin, Auckland, Colonel S. Mitchell, Wellington, and Veteran- Kit, Galway, had passed "away since ladt meeting. The Anzac Day parade was discussed, and it was decided to ask members to turn out in full force, assembling at ‘the -Fire Brigade station. It was decided to hold the reunion on the usual date, the last Saturday in May, the annual church parade to •be beM the following morning or, Sunday, May 28, at Holy Trinity Church. The June meeting will take the form of a social evening, to which the ladies and younger ones could be in vited. Discussion took place on a suggested general assembly in Wellington during the centenary celebrations oi Boer War veterans resident in the Dominion, irrespective of unit or country of origin. Possession of the Queen’s South African War Medal would be the deciding factor. The Dominion executive is to be asked to take steps to further this objective, asking branches to approach their representatives in Parliament so as- to bring the question under the notice of the Government. During the winter months, it was decided to meet at 7.30 p.m.