Returned Servicemen Meet

Chronicle (Levin), 17 March 1949, Page 3

Returned Servicemen Meet

The president of the Shannon branch of the Returned Services' Association, Mr. B. Clayton, presided over an attendance of eleven members at the usual • monthly general meeting of the branch on Saturday evening. The •president t>f the Tokomaru sub-branch," Mr. T. R. Kelly, was- also present. . Among the inward eorresponden.ce was a letter from the N.Z.R.S.A. acknowle'dging receipt of the local branch's remit to the annual conference concerning the reistatement of capital punishment. Information concernihg : thi's remit was forthcoming. The army authorities advised that assistance "would be given in cohnection with the display of army equipment, as suggested by the branch, to arouse ' interest in the carnival being conducted to raise funds for Ihe erection of a war memorial hall. It is understood that the display will be made at a gala day to be arranged by the committee. With reference to the Anzac Day arrangements," it was moved by Mr. C. Guerin that they be left in the hands of the executive committee. This was carried. It was sugested that the secretary write to New Zealand headquarters asking it to stop changing

J the date of the proposed eonfer,e]lce of women's sections to one ' Which co-incided with the annual . conference of the N.Z.R.S.A. " It was agreed that the. original sugges.tiqn for the conference to take place - at a weekend 'in May- be adherecL to 'because of a number oi reksons.- It was pointed out that .pcints. against a, clashing of the two conferences were the possible overtaxihg of hotel accommoda- , tion, and- that the suggested change would mean that nq unmarried R.SA. member would qualify as a delegate. Also, it woulcl influence the women's sections in their choiee of, delegates inasmuch as 'they would choose their delegates on the relationship -to R.S.A. delegates, and in the event of an R.S.A. appointing as official 'delegate a member of a sub-branch with 11,0 women's' section, there would be no wife or sister qualifying as a women's section delegate.