RETURNED SOLDIERS.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19883, 12 May 1936, Page 9

RETURNED SOLDIERS.

THE WAIKATO ASSOCIATION. PAST YEAR IN REVIE\V. A steady increase in membership during the last year is reported in the annual report or the Waikato Returned Soldiers' Association, to be presented :it the twentieth annual meeting in Toornk llatl on \Vednesday. May 20. The report states that the membership for the last year totuiied 330. The continued steady lnci'ense in membership \\‘:is gratifying, hut there must be still many returned men in the diStrict who were not yet members. .\part from the increase in pension applications caused by the \Vnr \‘eteruns' Allowances Act there was an increasing number 01' applications under the older Acts being handled. Three appeals had been successful and one had failed. Success had attended the eltorts ot’ the executive in nine other cases. Many men had been helped by the advice of the branch in pension matters and by the wise aciministration of the canteen and Poppy Day funds. ltcgulur visiting at the hospital hurl resulted in a quite heavy drain on the nssocintion‘s funds for the provision ot‘ comforts for returned soldier patients there. The executive was helped in this direction, however, by :1 Sunday night concert given by the l’]lilll.ll'llloniu tzhoir, by a Sunday rnilwny cxcnrsion to the Mount. flllil purticulzii‘ly hy the generosity of .\II' \\'. _\l_ H‘llnrn, who gave it whole week or his time in thing at itukuhin. For his nction in liciping the \\'niknto and illw ottn-r lirnncttcs at whose towns ‘.\lr H'ttarn cnllcii on his tour ot‘ .\c“ [Miami ”to cwcnlivo ctcctcd hint (I ‘lll‘l‘ iiit‘ilillt‘i' oi’ the ltt'nnt'tt. l The rcsullx‘ ntnlninclt on Poppy Dnv, llilfiiii. \vn-a \t‘t'v successful, and tlic. t;l~~4||'l.‘tlit|il \LIS 4]l‘\'|ll) grateful to Hit: \Xinyvrcss, .\li's .lt it. how, ntnt tiL‘t‘ linunv iiclpt-rs for their nssistnncc. I The report rci‘cl‘s to various social i.u-tnitics nnd cuinnicnts on thc Slli‘t'l‘hx’ tm‘ tltc lictnrncil Sultlicrs' howling,r gt: ill-llitlilt‘llt “Inch \Lts innun'urntctt itins _xl‘ni‘. .\pin'rcinlinn ni‘ ttic nssistn inn‘.» I'tiitlt'l'itl HI" nssocintion lly its {Hill} Ilcilncrs l\ tllMl i’Xlil‘l‘S‘k‘tL ‘ ’thc 5?. c ncnt ui' ari'nzlnls tlisclnscs .m t‘\\‘l‘>w 11l incunn‘ mcr r.\pcndillirc ‘l3‘i‘w 51.1 m. ___-___..—