SICK AND WOUNDED.
MKN UNDER THJ'.'ATMENT
WELLINGTON, November 25
On .November 15, 245 side and wounded soldiers were being treated in various hospitals and convalescent homes throughout New Zealand under the 'supervision of the Public Health Department. Forty men were at i&oto- • nui, 17 a.t Hanmer, 46 at Dunedin, 13 at Christchurch, 22 at AVnllingfton and 28 at Auckland, the other men being distributed over the Dominion in accordance, with the Department's policy of sending every man where possible to the. hospital nearest his home. Kef erring to these figures to-day the Minister in charge (the Hon. .G. W. Russell) stated that some of the returned men. were showing a tendency to tubercular disease. Six cases^ of this kind were being treated at Wai-lia-to Sanatorium and 10 eases at other sfiJ^a-toria-.
A deputAtiou of invalided soldiers w*iited on Mr Massey to-day to represent certain grievances. They stated
they had been given leave and ordored to report themselves for medical examination on December 29... They asked (1) that they' should be given railway passes to visit then 1 relatives; (5) that they should bo allowed a change of underclothing and unifor^|ft»Ml tk*lthey should rof^iye <"• rjtjjgrSUowanc*': They stated .'tfafj^.tllHir^'rr""" r"" r tnc clothes in winch"they stood, and had to maintain themselves on their military pay... The ■soldiers stated subset-' quently^that they Had received a sympathetic hearing from the Prime Minister. •
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8306, 26 November 1915, Page 6
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