SECOND DIVISION LEAGUE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 246, 11 July 1919, Page 3

SECOND DIVISION LEAGUE

WINDING UP A WABTIME Olil! A NIDATION. a. Tho Second Division League held its anmml meeting on Wednesday, when it was decided to wind up the league. Mr Ti. A. Armstrong president of the Wellington League, presided 1 ever a representative gathering. The annual report and balance-sheet already published wcro read and adopted. The chairman said that Ike winding up of the league had created a great deal of pleasure, for the league had done considerable Work since its inception in tho matter of improving tho lot of tho soldier and his depctidauts. generally. Ho was confident that had it not been for tho creation of a Second Division League both tho married and single men who went to war would not have been bo happy as tlioy were to-day. Tho league owed a lot to tho various officials in tho Defence Department, Mid in this connection he particularly desired to 1 thank Mr. .T. D. Gray (seerotary to the Iv'eeniiting Board) "Air. Kodda and the stall' of tho War Expenses and Pay Branch, and Captain Cosgrove, of tho ticcruiting Branch, for their very sympathetic, attention to matters wrought under tlic.ii- notice by the league. lib paid a high tribute to the executive's work —all members of tho league had acted' most zealously.■ Further, tho !engue had been particularly fortunate in lmving the devoted services of such a secretary as Mr. C. 11. Chapman. Monitors could irat assured that there -.vere ninny thousands of homes in T ew Zealand which had been made brighter and happier through- Hie efforts or the league. The following resolution wa.s then carried r—"That this meeting of members of the Second Division League determines upon the dissolution rf-the league in accordance with Rule IS."

After oilier members jiad referred to t.lie> work of tho lon sup, en J the. termination of the war, tho matter of the disposal of the league's funds was discussed. Mr. P. Bnillee moved that of the. amount, of ,£220 in hand .£lOl should )>e handed to the Wellington Upturned Soldiers' Association, and ,£IOO in the Trenthnm Scholarship Inmd, and ' the remainder to form a nucleus of a fund for the purpose nf proridimj a testimonial to 1)0 presented to tho president and secretary in recognition of their splendid services. On the question of (ho testimonial, Iwth tho chairman and the secretary said that they had no thought of any reward lieyond the feeling of satisfaction, obtained 'through the succos.-; of llio league's ■operations; Both speakers were strongly opposed to tho acceptance of any such reward.

After some further discussion, it was unanimously decided to except the executive's testimonial that the whole amount he divided between ■ the Itcturned Soldiers' Association and the Trentham Scholarship Fund. Messrs. Armstrong, Chapman, and Skinner were appointed trustees of the moneys in hand. Vole? of thanks to (he executive, Accountant Students' Society, and tho Press conclu#?d the meeting.