RETURNED SOLDIERS ASSOCIATION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16448, 31 May 1919, Page 3

RETURNED SOLDIERS ASSOCIATION.

LAST NIGHT’S PROCEEDINGS. For Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, May 31. At the Returned 1 Soldiers’ Conference last night the Organisation Committee recommended the creation of four districts, each of which should call a conference of associations to set up a district committee to consider the appointment and control of paid organisers. It was proposed that a rebate of 5s should be made for each member transferred from one association to another during the first three months of a financial year, except in the case of Rotorua.

The proposed basis of representation of local associations at the conference was one vote for every 200 financial members or fraction thereof, provided that no more than five delegates be allowed to attend, and that no association should exercise more than 40 votes.

It was proposed that each of the four centres in conference should elect one vice-president and three members, except in the case of Wellington, for which members jjore recommended. The coinrnittec atST) recommended that in the event of any district committee or local association desiring to alter the constitution of the N.Z.R.S.A., to allow such association to take political action that a referendum be taken of all local associations throughout New Zealand. Mr. Laing moved the adoption of a remit brought down by the executive, the main point of which was that district organisers should be controlled by headquarters and not by district committees. —The remit was rejected on the voices. An addition was agreed to that any district committee or local association could enter another district committee concerned to combat any proposed alteration in the constitution; that headquarters should he empowered with the consent of a district committee to make or combat any similar proposals. It was decided that the maximum number of delegates to a conference should be three, and that associations with a membership up to 1000 have oue delegate, up to 2500 two, over 2500 three. It was also decided that the basis of representation be one vote for every clause proposing five hundred members. The referendum on political action was held over until next conference.