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NZ Legion, Hawke's Bay Division. 154 items. Includes letters from a member suggesting that the Legion meet Frank Langstone, President NZ Labour Party; Assistant General Secretary advises that members should not take action in event of civil commotion; arrangements for attendance at National Council meeting, Wellington, July 1933, and visit of Dr. Campbell Begg to Napier, August 1933; financial difficulties of Legion outlined; plan to divide H.B. Division in half and a report of Nov 1933 indicates difficulties in sustaining interest in the Legion's activities and lack in progress in most centres. Other items are miscellaneous letters concerning the signing up of new members, notices of meetings, distribution of pamphlets and posters, and sale of National opinion, appointment of officers and reports from various centres. The letters are arranged chronologically., 1933 - 1934

 Item — Folder: 2/3
Identifier: MSS. Archives. A-38. Series File 2. File Folder 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection of records of the Hawke' Bay Division of the New Zealand Legion was donated to the Auckland University Library in 1969 by Mr Michael Pugh, who used it extensively in the writing of his MA thesis The New Zealand Legion and conservative protest in the Great Depression (1969). They are the papers referred to in the thesis as having been acquired from Mr J. Nelson, Havelock North, a former member of the Legion. The papers include...
Dates: 1933 - 1934