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PARTIALLY DISABLED EX-SOLDIERS

WORK OF COMMISSION DUNEDIN SITTINGS CONCLUDED By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, November 1. After sitting for six days, the Disabled Ex-soldiers’ Commission concluded the hearing of evidence in Dunedin today, and it will leave this morning for Wellington, where the evidence of Government departmental officers will be heard. The Auckland sitting will be commenced on November 12, and when it is concluded the commission will travel to Christchurch, after which it will return to Wellington for the hearing of further evidence. In the intervals between sittings the commission will visit various institutions and make general inquiries. The evidence heard in Dunedin was of a very lengthy nature and several important suggestions were made for the employment of disabled men. The most prominent suggestions were for the establishment of factories in towns for the manufacture of goods which would not compete with lines at present being manufactured in the Dominion; farm colonies, in which various types of farming would be combined, and a seed farm. Mr. R. B. Tennent, field superintendent of the Agricultural Department, in giving evidence to-day, however, stated definitely that considerabl losses could be expected if men were established in any kind of farming work. He added that the only feasible solution of the problem, in his opinion, was to have the men obsorbed in secondary industries as underrate workers, the Government granting a subsidy which would bring the men’s earnings up to the standard of the living wage. Mr. Tennent’s suggestion is one of which almost every witness has expressed himself in favour, and the commission intends to obtain the views of officials of the labour organisations in Wellington. . , It is apparent that the commission is giving very serious consideration to the possibility of the establishment in Wellington of a board with local boards in each centre, whose task would be the control of all matters connected with disabled men, including the finding of suitable employment.

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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 33, 2 November 1929, Page 11

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PARTIALLY DISABLED EX-SOLDIERS Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 33, 2 November 1929, Page 11

PARTIALLY DISABLED EX-SOLDIERS Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 33, 2 November 1929, Page 11