RETURNED SOLDIERS' ASSOCIATION.
ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING. The adjourned annual meeting of the New Plymouth Returned Soldiers' Association was held at the club rooms last night, the Ven. Archdeacon Evans presiding. Capt. Hartnell and Mr. E. B. Ellerm were appointed delegates to the New Zealand Conference of Returned Soldiers' Associations. A committee consisting of Messrs Boon, Smith, Davis, Hooker, MoDiarmid, Olliver, and Sadler was appointed to go into the question of raising further funds and report to a general meeting on May 27. It was decided, on the motion of Mr. W. P. Southam, that the first remit to the conference should be one embodying suggestions for a war memorial pension for men who have been on active service. Mr. E. B. Ellerm, returned soldiers' representative on the New Plymouth Repatriation Committee, reported regarding the work of that body. In regard to a suggestion by the Mayoress, which the president conveyed to the meeting, the following motion was carried: "That this meeting views with pleasure the suggestion of Mrs. Burgess that a plotin the local cemetery should be acquired, in which deceased returned soldiers could be interred if their relatives deaired.\
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 May 1919, Page 3
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190RETURNED SOLDIERS' ASSOCIATION. Taranaki Daily News, 14 May 1919, Page 3
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