SOLDIERS' INTERESTS
AND GOVERNMENT METHODS.
(II TELBGRAi-H.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
DUNEDIN, This Day.
There was passionate discussion at the Patriotic Executive menUo^ to-day over the Government's methods of dealing with soldiers' ' interests, and also relating to medical examinations, the lack of financial provision for men located at camp, and also distribution of patriotic contributions for the supply of comforts to our soldiers overseas. One case was ciced in which a home missionary had been rejected in camp for hermia and discharged. He underwent an operation costing.him about £35, to pay which he had to sell his furniture, the Government absolutely refusing to recognise any responsibility. > Special reference was made to the fact that the Government held £6000 contributed for the supply of comforts and could not or would not explain why the money had not been sent away, and refused to return it. Attention" was also drawn to the system of placing returned soldiers on-the land, irrespective of their knowledge or circumstances,- thus inevitably courting failure. The position was generally described as a perfect scandal, and one speaker said what was required was the force of public opinion to take'the Government by the neck.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 90, 16 April 1917, Page 8
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192SOLDIERS' INTERESTS Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 90, 16 April 1917, Page 8
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