SOLDIER LAW STUDENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 220, 16 September 1919, Page 9

SOLDIER LAW STUDENTS.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —If your correspondent "Ju3t Before Generous" is under the impression that our disabilities arc only "supposed," then it is about time that he loarnt that the war was carried on for nearly five years, and that, far from being purely imaginary, our disabilities are very real. In one case I know of, a conscientious objector has been able to continue in his employment anel pass hie examinations while we have been "over there" to help him carry on in comfort, free from German culture. Yet thfs civilian talks of "supposed" disabilities 1 . He also mentions those who were in tbe forty-something Reinforcement-. Even these students were under disabilities, as they must have missed at least one examination, and that means, under the present regulations, one whole year lost, at tlie very minimum. It is just a question of the degree of 'hardship in each particular case. In connection with his tlhird point. I feel safe in saying that fully 95 per cent, of those who signed the" letter to the R.S.A.A. were bonafid e law clerks or students before they went away on the "gTeat adventure." We are not asking for anything gener- ■ ous; we simply ask for a little compensation and consideration in order that we may be more favourably situated than at present, and to try and make up for our loss of the comfort and enjoyment of life enjoyed by those who were living (and studying) in civilisation right through the war.—l am, etc., A DIGGER STUDENT.

"War Student," in the course of a letter, writes: "The law students who have returned from active service merely ask that in future examinations they be credited with whatever subjects they qualify in, and this, I maintain, is reasonable.''