THE SOLDIERS' CLUB.
"OXE MORE LEMOXADE." .*t last night's meeting of the I'atriotic Committee the question of rerresentaticm on the Soldiers' Club Committee cropped up. Speaking to a motion by Mr. C. E JKllringer, that the Committee be represented in the management of the Club, Mr D. J. Hughes ventured to say that if the Committee had any voice in the management of the institution, thf management would have to branch out, and lv a bit more humanitarian. There was the man, he said, who' had probably taken "one more lemonade" than was gojd for him, and he was to be seen in the street in a condition no 1; perfectly iii-necordaroc with sobriety. Some provision should bo made in the Club for lh.» sbeltciing of these unwise soldiers, for wherever there were soldiers such Instances' were bound to occur.
Tl\ chairman (Mr. Burges) characterised the suggestion as "outrageous." It v.-.'is never intended that the Club should be ,i ''home for drunks." Its object was to he a resting and meeting-place for returned soldiers, and lie was sur-p:i-:<d that anyone should advance such a proposition. If soldiers got too much li:pii'i it was to the hotels that an ap-pn-1 for accommodation tc "sleep it dIV" shoii'd be made.
>.,r. Hughes: It's only a matter of op.nion, sir; several cases have come under my notice.
The chairman: I know it is only a matter of opinion, Mr. Hughes, and now 1 rim givin? you mine. Captain Hartncll and Mr. Sadler each Lritfly outlined the purposes ot the Club, and details as to its conduct au-3 aims.
Mi. Clarke then moved that the Patriotic Committee be not represented on the management,'but this failed to find a seconder.
Mr. Huehos: It will go out to tho put"c now that no one must go in there who is not strictly sobdr. The chairman: Very well then; we will shut H up. Mr Colli* considered that it would be distinctly unwise for any patriotic organisation to dissolve itself from the parent body. Nothing in connection with the Soldiers' Club should be done to make it appear that the Club was outtii'.j away and holding aloof from the main committee.
Attei some further diseussior, the propowi! for representation in the management was -arried
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1916, Page 4
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377THE SOLDIERS' CLUB. Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1916, Page 4
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