RETURNED SOLDIERS' ASSOCIATION

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 95, 16 January 1919, Page 4

RETURNED SOLDIERS' ASSOCIATION

MEETING OF LOCAL COMMITTEE

The Committee of the Wellington Eeturned Soldiers' Association met last evening. Mr. J. D- Harper presided. The matter of selecting three members of the association to act.on the district repatriation boards constituted under Section 10 of the Eepatriation Act was discussed at some length, when a motion was moved to have tho selection left to a general meeting of the association. The feeling on this point was divided and it was eventually decided to leave the matter over till a later meeting. With repaid to the employment of returned soldiers a case was cited where i< harbour board employee, who had been wounded at the front,.' was unable to be certified as fit to_ participate in tho board's superannuation and insurance scheme. The man in question had joined.the staff of the board and was, "it appeared, capable of performing the duties allotted him, but owing to the fact that he had been wounded he could not be certified as physically fit. The committee decided to .deputationis© tho board with a view to suggesting that the regulations might be relaxed somewhat in the case of returned soldiers joining tho board's staff..

Members of the New Zealand Educational Institute generally believe that the chief obstacle to the proper staffing of schools has < been the principle of basins the staffing upon the average attendance, Mr. W. W. Rowntree (Wellington) should therefore have been .reported in. yesterday's account ' of the'debate upon staffing as advocating a change from tho old system to one under which the average roll number, and not tho average attendance, would form the basis of staffing. Advice has been received from Australia that the company headed by Miss Muriel Starr, which was to have opened in Auckland at an early date, will not now come to Now Zealand, but will be replaced by "Businoss foro Pleasure," described as a play on the lines of "Potash and Perlmutter.