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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18536, 5 April 1930, Page 18 (Supplement)

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MONTHLY MEETING. j The monthly meeting of the South j Canterbury Returned Soldiers’ Associi ation executive was held last night, Mr i A. N. Oakey presiding over a large at- j : tendance. i The chairman said that in connec- | tion with Poppy Day. he had noticed j that the primary schools were not reI suming after the Easter holidays, and ! the Association would therefore not J have an opportunity of selling poppies .at the schools on the day preceding j Anzac Day. As a great deal of the ! revenue came from the primary | schools something would have to be i l done. j Mr L. M. Inglis moved that the | | schools be canvassed before they break j up for the Easter holidays.—Carried, j The cost of procuring amplifiers for , the speeches on Anzac Day was con- j sidered to be too great, and it was • decided that no action be taken. Correspondence. A letter was received from the Auckland Returned Soldiers’ Association stating that a special commemeration anthem had been composed and written for Anzac Day services throughout New Zealand. The Auckland Association had had the anthem published, and it was now available to all kindred associations. It was resolved to request the Auckland Association to forward a copy to the South Canterbury Association for their inspection. A communication was received from 1 the Timaru Borough Council, stating that the Association had been granted < April 24 as Poppy Day. 1 The Department of Internal Affairs ) wrote stating that the Minister of In--ternal Affairs had approved of per- ! manent work being carried out on s Blocks A. B. D and E of the new 1 soldiers’ portion of the Timaru Ceme- • tery. When this work had been completed, the work of exhuming the bodies of those soldiers already buried in the public portion of the cemetery, and their re-burial in the Soldiers’ Cemetery could then be undertaken where the relatives agreed to this course. General. A sub-committee consisting of ; Messrs L. M. Inglis, A. M. Nicholson. W. G. Tweedy and A. N. Oakey, was ; j appointed to draw up the service for ! Anzac Day, and to interview Mr j ( Harper, curator of the Park, in refer- j 1 ence to the placing of the public dur- | ] ing the service. The secretary reported that all ‘ arrangements had been completed to . screen a suitable war film on Anzac night. Mr A. M. Nicholson stated that all present had seen the notices in the , daily papers of the intention of the ( Government to curtail the territorial ( training in New Zealand, and he de- . sired to move the following motion in protest. “That the South Canterbury Returned Soldiers’ Association views with apprehension the action of the Government in suddenly curtailing territorial training, and that the As- j sociation affirms the necessity for the continued maintenance of an efficient land force; and that tl.e Association supports the continuance of the territorial system.”—The motion was carried unanimously.