A CLIQUE ALLEGED

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 278, 18 August 1921, Page 5

A CLIQUE ALLEGED

BREEZE AT U.S.A. MEETING. The existence of a clique tffat was • attempting to "run” the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association was alleged last evening at a general meeting of the association by Mr. A. B. bievwright The inddont occurred during an. explanation by Mr. Sievwright of certain Happenings at the recent Palmerston conference of returned though a delegate to the district con ference at Palmerston, Mr. Sievwright was not a delegate to tho New Zealand Conference. lioldng the confidence of thus association," he said, "delegates to Palmerston should have been delegates to the Dunedin conference. Remits were passed there that would hava been opposed by tho various district associations. A small clique is running. the R.S.A. That small clique was m existence two years ago when I opposed it; it is in existence now. It is in control partly for its own ends. From first to last I am opposed to its members.” , - r In the course of further remarks Mr. Sievwright referred to an attack made by tho "clique” on the general eecretarv of tho association; to alleged placing of their views, before the views of th® men they represented, and other matters. The subject will be fully discussed at a special general meeting to be hcia liter.