“POLITICAL GHOST.”

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3504, 5 June 1920, Page 7

“POLITICAL GHOST.”

REMARKS AT R.S.A. CONFERENCE THE PRINCEWD HIS BADGH. “It is a matter for congratulation that we have laid for ever the political ghost,u” said the President of the New Zealand RS.A. yesterday, when moving the motion for the adoption of the annual report. _ Av memberi Never!” Mr T_ Long: “It is a very tangible ghost! ” The President continued that in -cther countries ex-soldiersf associations. had been political associations. Colonel Grigg, who -had accompanied the Prince of Wales to New Zealand, had spoken to him on this subject and had told him that in England soldiers‘ associations had really been f~Crlll€d by or through political agencics. and, as a result, when they begun to move in any direction for the good of the soldiers, they immediiately found themselves up against. political agencies. In New Zealand Colonel G-rigg said they were upon absolutely sound lines when they remained all things to all men, and confined themselves to doing good for returned soldiers. Colonel Grigg had said that had the association been political the Prince of Wales could not have accepted its badge, or become one of its members. . A member: “He said that.”

The President: “Yes.” It would have been impossible fox-‘the Prince of Wales to have associated himself in any way with political views.”