RETURNED SOLDIERS' ASSOCIATION

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2957, 21 December 1916, Page 9

RETURNED SOLDIERS' ASSOCIATION

'■: , VARIOUS RESOLUTIONS. : A meeting of the New Zealand' Executive was hold on Monday last, and a considerable amount of business was transacted. Among the resolutions passed were tho following :— "That the association be represented on- Military Service Appeal Boards." Tho question of pensions and discharges was very fully discussed, and it was resolved: "That no-returned soldier should be discharged while an in-patient of a hospital, that out-pa-tients should ,gct full pension, and that any returned soldier after discharge be entitled to free medical treatment at the expense of the State." . A number of individual complaints un•dcr this head were referred to the AVellington sub-committee for action in accordance with this resolution. "That a deputation wait upon the Hon.. A. L. Herdnian to confer with him regarding the appointment of local associations to act. as agents for the Discharged Soldiers' Information Departnicnt." Applications by nurses for membership, forwarded by local association's for ruling, were considered, but as tlie rules specially state "males" the master was deferred to be brought up at the next conference. Tenders for tlie supply of badges were received, the tender or Messrs. Mayer and Kean, of AVellington, being accepted. ' Two ; special resolutions passed were: "That the secretary make public this meeting's entire disapproval and lack of sympathy with tho sentiments expressed by Captain Simson in South Africa, 'and especially deprecates ins statement 'That New Zealand farmers who have lost sons in the War consolo themselves with the profits made out of tho war.' " ( "That in the opinion of this meeting no peace proposals, however plausible, . are acceptable, unless on the terms- outlined by Mr. Asquith iii his speech at the Guildhall in November, 1914,.and this meeting impresses upon the New Zealand Government the absolute necessity of keeping'up reinforcements until the war shall have been brought to a victorious conclusion.'.' . '•■:'■