WAR AMPUTEES

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24741, 5 December 1945, Page 10

WAR AMPUTEES

LIMB-FITTING CENTRE WANTED “Men in high places in Wellington are standing on their dignity while amputees of this war stand on one leg," said Mr C.- De Renzy, who presided at. the seventh annual reunion dinner of the Canterbury-Westland War Amputees’ Association recently. Nearly 70 amputees of the two World Wars attended the dinner. Early in the war the amputees’ committee had asked the Government to prepare for fitting limbs to amputees, Mr De Renzy said. Nothing had been done, and to-day limb-fitting was being done by men. who were reaching the age when they should retire from such difficult work. “It is possibly news to you that there is a squabble on between certain Government departments as to who should control the making of artificial limbs,” he added. “This seems to me to be an awful thing.” Colonel J. Murphy, chairman of the Disabled Servicemen’s Re-establish-ment League, said that . the league hoped to have its training centre open early in the New Year. Telegrams expressing the league’s dissatisfaction with progress with the centre had been' sent to the Minister of Defence and the Minister of Rehabilitation. Replies had been received, but he was not prepared to read them until they had been submitted to the league Toasts were honoured as follows: “The King”; “Absent Comrades.” Mr De Renzy; “Medical, Nursing, and Auxiliary Services” (Mr A. R, Guthrey—Colonel Sir Hugh Acland, Mr J. Leslie Will, Misses F. Wilson, and M. G, Havelaar); Assoclation (Canterbury)” (Mr De Renzy— Messrs J. L. Danks and J, S. Hawkes)* “Amputees of the Second World War” (Mr C. J. Henty—Mr A. W. Innes); Jfa tU r? et li j Send? 65 ’ Association and Disabled Servicemen’s Ee-estab-lishment League” (Mr H. L. Cooper

—Messrs Colonel . ciations” son). D. W. Russell, E. Orchard, J. Murphy); “Kindred AssoCMr W. Maxwell—Mr C. Wil-