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WAIRARAPA R.S.A.

MEETING OF CENTRAL COMMITTEE , PATRIOTIC WELFARE WORK. MANY MATTERS OF INTEREST DISCUSSED. Many matters of interest to ex-Ser-vice men were dealt with last night by the Central Committee of the Wairarapa Returned Services Association, at a meeting held in Master ton. The president, Mr H. J. Brass, occupied the chair. There were also present Messrs H. G. Alexander, E. L. Nicholson, H. Nuttall, F. Shearer, L. T. Wylie (Masterton), C. A. Chennells (Carterton), Miss Higginson (Greytown) and the secretary, Mr A. E. Prentice. Messrs F. L. Barr, president, and A. G. Rabbits, secretary of the Carterton branch, were also in attendance. An apology for absence was received from Mr J. G. O’Connor, owing to family bereavements. It was decided to send him a letter expressing the association’s sympathy in the loss of his mother and brother. It was stated that the bedspread donated by Miss A. Hanlon, of Featherston, had yielded, by means of a raffle, a very satisfactory financial result. The committee thanked Mr Alexander for conducting the raffle and also all citizens who had assisted him in the effort.

A letter was received from the general secretary of the N.Z. R.S.A. intimating that the association’s suggestion to forward a cable to Mr Churchill congratulating him on the recent successes of the Allied forces in Africa had been adopted and that a draft cable had been submitted to the Prime Minister for his approval prior to despatch.

OF COMMITTEES. It was , reported _ that negotiations were in progress for the appointment of representatives of the association to all patriotic welfare committees to be set up in the Wairarapa. The matter was left to the president to complete the arrangement. It was agreed also to urge that a returned member of the Second N.Z.E.F. should be included in the representatives. The president and secretary were appointed to attend a conference of representatives of the Wairarapa, Eketahuna, Pahiatua and Akitio Returned Services Associations to be held at Pahiatua shortly to discuss matters affecting the welfare of returning members of the Second N.Z.E.F. ENTRY TO ASSOCIATION. A request was received from a recent meeting held in Masterton of returned members of the Second N.Z.E.F., asking for a definition of the qualifications of membership in the Association. It was pointed out that at the 26th annual meeting of the Dominion Council of the N.Z. R.S.A., held in Wellington in June, 1942, it was agreed that all ex-members of his Majesty’s forces who were posted on leave without pay or were gazetted as totally unfit for further military duty and who possessed the qualifications of overseas service and good character were eligible for active membership. The general secretary of the N.Z. R.S.A. wrote stating that a suggestion from the Wairarapa Association that n.c.o’s. serving overseas should be given priority in commissions in the Second N.Z.E.F. was under consideration by the Dominion executive. The president reported on an inter- | view he had had with Mr J. Robertson, M.P., in which he had urged the completion of the setting up of the Wairarapa Rehabilitation Committee. Mr Robertson said he hoped to announce shortly that the personnel of the committee had been completed. It was decided to call a meeting of all Wairarapa returned members of the Second N.Z.E.F. at an early date. It was reported that the N.Z. R.S.A. was negotiating with the Pensions Department for the supply of a special combination knife and fork for issue to all arm amputee cases and to exService men who had otherwise lost the use of an arm. Accounts totalling £147 18s lOd were passed. Five badge re-issues were authorised. AN IMPENDING VISIT. It was decided to hold a social evening in Masterton on March 10, when Mr C. E. Leadley, a member of the Dominion Executive and Dominion organiser of the Disabled Soldiers’ Re-establishment League and Mr Phil Bennett, also a member of the Dominion Executive and of the New Zealand R.S.A. special lands committee, would be the guests of the association. The secretary reported that serious difficulty was being encountered by the Internal Affairs Department in supplying orders for Great War veteran headstones to the relatives of deceased ex-Service men. The contractors, he said, were unable to keep up with the orders owing to the manpower shortage.. Mr Brass gave an interesting account of a conference of representatives of the Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin Returned Services associations, recently held in Wellington and which he attended, when questions in regard to the welfare of the Second N.Z.E.F. both in New Zealand and overseas came under discussion. The Carterton delegates presented a plan of the layout of the new soldiers’ plot in the Clareville Cemetery. The plan had been approved by the Carterton Borough Council and was being sent to the Department of Internal Affairs for its consideration. Two cases of ex-Service men in need of assistance were brought under the notice of the committee.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 February 1943, Page 4

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WAIRARAPA R.S.A. Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 February 1943, Page 4

WAIRARAPA R.S.A. Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 February 1943, Page 4

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