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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 40, 15 August 1918, Page 6

Speaking at Greymouth, Sir James Allen said he wished to do all that was possible for the returned men and equip them to re-enter civil life. At Home a scheme had been set on foot to train men for their own vocations or to take up new ones. General Richardson had made arrangements for the men in England to attend the English Universities and to receive commercial and vocational training. This would be continued when the men returned to New Zealand. When the war was over the men could not all be brought back at once. It would take six, nine, or twelve months to complete demobilisation. It was therefore necessary to find some occupation for the men to take up in the meantime, occupations that would make them useful citizens of New Zealand. Schemes of vocational training were being experimented with and ' would be improved as experience was gained in their working. The work would be continued in New Zealand. Vocational training would be provided, and be hoped educational trailing as well. At Rotorua there was a workshop for training disabled soldiers who could not take up their old occupations. He hoped that masters of industry would give the Department assistance in training returned sgjdiferc iw their old, yoca■tfam