A largely attended__meeting of the members of the United Ser viees Association was held on Tuesday at the Palace Hotel under the chairmanship of Lt.-Col. Hayley Bell, p.s.o., supported by Major C. M." Manners, Messrs. Reader Harris, Alistair Campbell, T. Grifin and V. D. H. Craddock, The chairman in commencing the business of the day said in part I think I shall not be putting out of place by putting first in my remarks to-night the regret of this Committee and of the whole Association in the loss of the services, since our last general meeting, of Major Hilton-Johnson as chairman. I here that the loss is to be but temporary and that Major Hilton-Johnson, when his present ress of work allows of it, can be induced to return again'to the chairmanship of this Committee.
Before we get to the business of the day I think it will be of interest to you all to know something of what has been done by this Association and for this Association since we last met in this room. I sometimes think that it is not altogether recognized what the full aims and objects of the United Services Association are and in this connexion I might say that we propose to issue, somewhere about the end of the financial year (June), g book which will contain the chafter of the Association and some idea of its work, together with a list of all the members of which we now number 490. But in any case I think that we all understand that the first aim of the Association is to help those members of the fighting services who returned from the war or, passing through Shanghai, are in need—those who have not been so fortunate in their return to civilian life perhaps, as ourselves.
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