DISABLED SOLDIERS

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 284, 26 August 1922, Page 6

DISABLED SOLDIERS

RECENT CLAIMS EOR WAR ■ belief. Winter is always hard on those who suffer from physical disability, and as the lot of many such has been made unpleasant this year by an unusual amount of sickness and unemployment, toe demands on the funds of the Wellington War Relief Association have been unusually numerous. Reporting on the situation at yesterday’s meeting of the executive, the Applications Committee said:— . , “There has been no alteration in the general activities of your committeo, which has been called upon to decide claims differing widely in description, and, in many instances, difficult of solution. , , , A considerable number of grants were awarded unemployed disabled soldiers pending their, re-employment, or in part restoration of temporarily reduced civil earnings, resultant upon their physical impairment; and to men who were discharged fit and had subsequently suffered a vzar disability. In both these types of applications your assistance was; supplementary to, or in anticipation of, payment of war pensions. . , “Other applications were received from discharged soldiers engaged in agricultural, industrial, and commercial pursuits, and apart from the comparatively small grants awarded •to those of them who are suffering war disability, your committee has supplied tools of trade to men who could not have repaid the cost thereof had such been advanced as a loan by the Repatriation Department, and has rendered assistance in other directions-