DISCHARGED SOLDIERS AND FORESTRY
The following paragraph appears in the annual report of the State Forestry Department: — , "Though endeavours were made to employ discharged soldiers on the plantations, it was found that comparatively few cared to take up this work. The total number of employed during the year in-both Islands wae'only 24. At the present time only one is employed, all the others having left voluntarily. Those soldiers who were employed received the same pay as the ordinary hands. In spite of the apparent unwillingness to take up forestry on the part of the men who have bo far returned, it is expected that at the end of the war there will be large numbers of able-bodied discharged soldiers who will prefer this occupation to the less healthy employment that might be got in towns."
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 52, 30 August 1917, Page 2
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135DISCHARGED SOLDIERS AND FORESTRY Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 52, 30 August 1917, Page 2
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