GARRISON OFFICERS' CLUB
ALLEGED DISSENSION. Mr. AV. D. S. jrocdonalil save notice in tho House of representatives yesterdav to ask the Minister for Defence whether there is any truth in a. statement now being made that the Wellington Garrison Officers' Club recently refused membership to a eertain officer by "blackballing" him. in defiance of an instruction from the Officer Commanding tho District that no officer could tbe put up for ballot, and that the club had further defied authority by declining to olje.v the direction of tha General Officer Commanding that an old rule allowing a ballot should be deleted. and as a result had decided to vacate the rooms provided in tho Drill Hall and obtain rooms elsewhere with the object of forming a private officers' club; and. if such statements were true, did the Minister not think such conduct an attempt to create a class distinction in a purely citizen army, and a breach of discipline, and as such prejudicial to the success of the Defence scheme; and. further, if inquiry revealed such statements to exist, wnat-action would the Minister take to bring the offenders to book? *
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1828, 14 August 1913, Page 7
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189GARRISON OFFICERS' CLUB Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1828, 14 August 1913, Page 7
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