EVELYN FIRTH HOME

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 247, 18 October 1941, Page 14

EVELYN FIRTH HOME

THE executive of the Newmarket Returned Soldiers' Club has sent an emphatic protest to the Prime 1 Minister and the Minister of Defence against the decision to close the 2 Evelyn Firth Home. The resolution dealt with the great benefits that T treatment in the home had afforded ) returned men. It was stated that > many a partially disabled soldier had been enabled again to take hisproper place in society through treatment received there, and many of the permanent disability cases I' have had their sufferings greatly ' alleviated, while some of the serious I cases have had all that could be ' desired before the sounding of the I. Last Post. The executive contends that the cost of running the home, £60 a week, is not excessive, and that the closing of the home will not reduce 5 the expenditure of keeping returned soldiers. "Let us think not only of the present inmates of the Home, but also of the Second N.Z.E.F., and L t see that the promises of 1920 are realities and not platitudes or just words. We demand the retention of the home," states the executive.