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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 130, 26 February 1937, Page 20

“Seeing war veterans —South African and those who served at the Great War—begging on the streets in London and all over Great Britain, is proving a strong deterrent to the younger generation over there, and is to a great extent hindering recruiting operations,” said Mr. G. Mitchell, at a meeting of the Wellington South African War Veterans’ Association, held last night. He had seen many such men, somu blind, some with an arm or leg missing, who were compelled to follow that means of livelihood because the pensions they received were insufficient to support them. He returned from England with the opinion that New Zealand should carry her own burdens and do it cheerfully, feeling glad at the knowledge that New Zealand exservicemen were the best-treated in the world.