Compass - The RSA

Sixties current affairs show Compass checks in with the Returned Services’ Association on its 50th anniversary, exploring the future for an organisation that can be said to officially live in the past. The RSA’s roles include welfare, watchdog, and keeper of the flame. There's a visit to the refurbished Taumaranui RSA whose bar makes a good return in a town that is officially dry, while Levin's RSA courts the next generation with youth club sessions. In Wellington two retired army officers summarise a South East Asian fact-finding trip. The Anzac Day footage includes a lively post-Dawn Parade celebration that fills Wellington railway station.