NATIONAL RESERVE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2386, 16 February 1915, Page 6

NATIONAL RESERVE

WELLINGTON MEETING,

A public demonstration in support of the National Reserve will be field in. the Town Hall on Friday evening at 8 o'clock. The Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) will be, in the chair, and addresses will be given by the Eight Hon. W. F. Massey, Prime Minister, Sir J. G. Ward, the chairman, and Colonel Porter,. C.B. (president and commandant of the Wellington District National Reserve). The Tramway Band, honorary band to the Wellington National Reserve, will render patriotic selections during' the meeting. The City Organist (Mr. Bernard Page) will be the accompanist. Mr. Walter Leslie is the Wellington district, secretary. The ladies of Wellington ara specially invited. A ' RAILWAY SECTION FORMED. _Mr. E. H. Hiley (General Manager or Railways) presided over a meeting held in the Railway Head Offices on. Friday last, and after the objects of the National Reserve of New. Zealand were explained it was decided, to form a Railway Section of that organisation. Mr. Hiley was elected president (ex and the following Executive Committee was formed to further thei movement:—

Messrs. G. A. Troup (chairman), P. Kelly; E. J. Guiness, J. .Young (re-i, presenting the Railway Officers' Instil tute), M. J. Mack (Amalgamated Society' of Railway Sen-ants), W. Wiles; (New Zealand Engine-drivers', Fire-, men, and Cleaners' Association), and F, M: Sherwood (hon. secretary and treas-v urer). decided that to commencei with District Committees be formed at] 18 of the principal railway centres in; the Dominion. Circulars and enrol-i ment forms will be issued to the staff m the course of a few days, and front the number of inquiries that have been; made there is no doubt that there will' be a larjje membership, many railwaymen having already evinced iheir intention to join this movement.