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Taranaki Daily News, 16 February 1918, Page 7

SOLDIERS' CLUBS IS THE SPENDING OF BIG SUMS ADVISABLE? (Erom Ouv Own Correspondent). Wellington ,Eeb. 13. The expenditure of very large sums of money on tlie erection of returned soldiers' clubs is a matter on which the returned soldiers themselves are not una nimous. Cabinet has decided not to veto the schemes that have been brought forward in Auckland, Dunedin and elsewhere. and the permits required before appeals can be made for public subscriptions for the erection of clubs will Hie issued. But the question will be raised at the forthcoming conference of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Asiaeiation at Auckland, and some of the delegates will argue that heavy capital expenditure at this stage is undesirableA prominent member of the Association, speaking to your correspondent today, said he thought the Auckland proposal for spending £50,000 on a clufl building for returned soldiers was far too ambitious The money probably could be raised if the citizens of Auckland took the matter in hand, but it could be spent to much better purposeReturned soldiers' clubs were serving a very useful end at the present time, but they could not be wanted-indefinite-ly, and the notion that a building suitable for a club could be converted later into an orphanage or anything of that kind was absurd. A site suitable for the one would be highly unsuitable for the other.

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