SECRETARY OF R.S.A. IN WANGANUI RESIGNS TO JOIN WOOL FIRM

Wanganui Chronicle, 8 December 1950, Page 4

SECRETARY OF R.S.A. IN WANGANUI RESIGNS TO JOIN WOOL FIRM

Mr E. Barnett, who has been secretary of the Wanganui Returned Services Association for the past six and a-quarter years, tendered his resignation at a meeting of the association. He has accepted an appointment in the wool department of head office of the New Zealand Farmers’ Distributing Co. Ltd., Wanganui, a firm he was employed with prior to being appointed to his present post. “Owing to the long hours that have been, and still are, necessary for me

to work in order that the position I hold, as laid down by the executive committee, is fulfilled, I herewith tender my resignation as secretarymanager of the Wanganui R.S.A., such resignation to take effect one month from the date of this letter (on December 31, 1950),” Mr Barnett' wrote. “At the same time I wish to tender my resignation as your representative on the following bodies and sub-committees: Patriotic Committee, welfare section of the. Patriotic Committee, trustee of the Post Office Savings Bank accounts, Finance Subcommittee, Pensions and Poppy Fund Control sub-committce, and secretary pro tem of the Billiards Sub-commit-tee.” Mr Barnett’s resignation was accepted with regret. He is a returned serviceman of World War I, and had! had a long association with the sport of Rugby and of cricket in Wanganui through the Technical Old Boys’ clubs.