RETURNED SOLDIERS.
PROVISION FOR EMPLOYMENT. WHAT THE GOVERNMENT IS DOING. trftSM ASSOCIATION TKLKORAM.) WELLINGTON, August 12. IJa# Government is losing no time in pwpariog for tho future of roturned soldiers. Already definite proposals have been submitted to Cabinet by tho ?rlm© Minister, at ha i s also Minister ot Labour. "Wo propose," said Mr Massey, "to $i?o one Minister charge of tno returning Soldiers to see that ovarything is done for them in providing them wit}i employment, getting them on to the land, or in the case of disabled men. arranging for instruction to bo given them by which it will bo possible for them to do something in the way of supplementing the military pension* provided by tne State." ; Mr.Maiisey said that ho was not in * position to say what Was being dono . irt this direction in other countries, but he felt sure. that as far as New Zealand was concerned they were proceeding along the right lines.
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Press, Volume LI, Issue 15356, 13 August 1915, Page 7
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