SUPPORT FOR DIRECT ACTION

Chronicle (Levin), 27 July 1946, Page 8

SUPPORT FOR DIRECT ACTION

— Press Association

AUCKLAND R.S.A. TO MEET PRIME MINISTER

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AUCKLAND; July 2(5. A conferenee betweeii the Prime Minister and representatives of tlie Auckland Keturned Serviees' Association and Auckland Hockey Associatioiij is to be held tomorroVv morning as the result of tlie resolution passed at tbe R.A.A. quai'terly meeting on Thursday night, urging direct action to prevent tlie demolition of buildings and appomtments at Kamp Oranje, Remuera. Tlie Prime Minister is arriving from Wellington in the morning on his way to Whangarei and is brealting his journev. in order" to attend the conferenee. The president of tlie Auckland R.S.A. , Mr. A. P. Postlewaite, received a telephone massage from kir. Fraser this morning ■isking for the conferenee to be arranged. kir. Postlewaite said the Prime Mirtister expressed considerable concern over the matter and said he hopeci a -atisfac'tory agreement could be reaened. As a result, niembers of the asso•iaiion's executive eominittee will atlend the conferenee in full force to oresent the views of ex-servicemen on Ihe matter. Following the publication of the association 's"decision, said Mr. Postlewaite tonight, many returned servicenien had approached him dunng the day with tlie request that if direct action were to be taken, they ana their wives and families should be ailowed to mo ve into the camp ana occupy the threatened buildings. Wliolehearted support for the Auckland Returned Serviees' Association in any action it might take, was expressed by Mr. H. .T. Duggan, president or the Auckland hraneh of the Air Force Association. ' ' The searcitv of aeeom- > modation for men of all the serviees and their families, has causecl us deep concern for a long time and the truiy desperate circumstanees of the cases we have been able to help, shoeks one to tlie realisation that the matter is one of extreme national urgency," said klr. Duggan. "A large proportion of tlie time of- ihe Auckland hraneh secretary is taken up in endeavouring to obtam accommodation for all who call on Inm and we feel we have almost exhaustea all avenues. We therefore wholehearredlv endorse the R.S.A. attitude m asking tjiat Kamp Oranje he macie available to returned men or ex-service-ineii and their families, and we will give the R.S.A. the very fullest support or our association in every possible way."