INDIGNANT SOLDIERS
* • By Telegraph—Press Association. Napier, November 23. At a general meeting of the Returned Soldiers' Association held last night the following resolution was unanimously carried:—"That this meeting strongly Tesonts the action of the management of a local picture company, which refused a returned soldier (a Maori) admission to tho dress circle of tho theatre, and that tho members of this association respectfully warn the management, that while it recognises tho right to pick and choose its patrons, it determines to tako drastic steps if necessary to prevent a similar insult being offered to returned Maori soldiers." It was further decided to forward a copy of this resolution to tho head centre of tho association, asking them to express their opinion and to take further-action.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19161124.2.39
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2937, 24 November 1916, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
125INDIGNANT SOLDIERS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2937, 24 November 1916, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in