SECOND DIVISION LEAGUE
TWO RESOLUTIONS.
The executive of the Hastings branch of the Second Division League on Friday night resolved (states a Press Association telegram) :-"Thiit wo reaffirm our loyalty and steadfast determination to assist the Government to bring the war to a victorious ending. We aim to procure, if possible by constitutional methods, tho conservation of tho welfare of all soldiers, and to secure adequate allowances for their wives and children. M T o repudiate and dissociate ourselves absolutely from any acts or expressions of disloyalty, and whilst endeavouring to socuro for those upholding the cause of right and justice in the firing-line tiio same average rato of pay enjoyed by their rejected brothers, we unanimously agree to mako tho great sacriiico of our lives if necessary in defending tho flag of freedom in preference to living under a foreicn despotism." The Auckland Executive of the Second Division Leaguo carried a resolution of-' firming that physical fitness should bo the solo test of liability for military service. The president (states a Press Association telegram) was appointed a delegate to the Dominion Conference, and was instructed to use all his influence by constitutional methods to obtain the ends for which tho league is aiming.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 200, 13 May 1918, Page 4
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204SECOND DIVISION LEAGUE Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 200, 13 May 1918, Page 4
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