RETURNED SOLDIERS' CLUB DAY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17654, 2 September 1919, Page 4

RETURNED SOLDIERS' CLUB DAY.

TO-MORROW (WEDNESDAY) SEP.

TEMBER 3rd

A strong appeal is being made by the ladies to assist the above building fund. A fine supply of homemade, goods, country meat and produce^ will be on sale, also an abundance of lovely spring flowers. An opportunity will be given to obtain a sack of coal, a bag of flour, a prime ham, and various, useful articles by expending a nimble sixpence. For every shilling spent, an Art Union ticket will be given. Shop early and be generous. It will help our returned soldiers. Look out for" the novelty near the Post Office. It is what "the boys" want. Try and give it to them.

Cabled, advice has been recfeivsd from the Admiralty that the Nf-w Zealand minefields are now clear, arid navigation restrictions on I he \ areas mentioned are removed. =■

The following motion was passed at the last meeting of the Wanganui branch of the A.S.R.S.:—That th..i meeting congratulates th-e waterside workers of Wellington on their action in refusing to handle/potatoes for export to Australia, and thus protecting the people of New Zealand from further exploitation."

Four of the liberal ex-Ministers have qualified, according to the customary requirement, to retain the title of "Honourable." Permission to retain this title is usually granted by the Governor-General after three years' continuous service as a Minister of the Crown. The Hons. W. D. S. Mac Donald, A. M. Myers, G. W. Russell, and J. A. Hanan have been members of the national Ministry since its foundation in 1915. Sir Joseph Ward, as a Privy Councillor, is Right Honourable. •

Explaining the word "Digger," Brigadier-General Brand, the Victorian Commandant, stated recently that it was the password used by the Australian scouts on patrol in "No Man's Land," and eventually the term was applied to fighting troops. At one time, he .said, the greatest compliment that could be paid to a man in France was to refer to him as a Digger. Since the armistice every man wearing the uniform of the Australian Imperial Force was dubbed a "Digger." The word should be protected, , said General Brand, and should hot be applied to men who did not know the sound of a "5.9."