LONG SERVICE MEN

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 27, 31 January 1919, Page 7

LONG SERVICE MEN

Sir,—Regarding your correspondent's remarks concerning the Medical Corps, I know of men in this unit who have been three and four years in the Army, in many cases on service abroad, and who cannot get their discharge. If tho1 Defence Authorities required men for home service work let them callup mdtt and' make them carry on in place of the Red Cross men who have given up dome of tho best years of their life for 5s or 6s pen day in the service of theur country, whilst others who are quite able ta do home service work have b*en, and aTe, earning full civilian wages, as well as enjoying civilian liberty. No doubt the Defence Department will Jaise tho cry of trained men being.requited..Mere camouflage. All the hospital training a Medical Corps man received before going overseas was three weeks" at Tauherenikau Racecourse, Featherston. It would be qtrite staple, therefore, for the military authorities to call up men who hava made fto sacrifices in the war, give them, three Weeks' practical hospital .ti&ining. and then make them staS the camps, ani hospitals. But have the military authorities anj\ conception- of the meSning of the iwjrd justice?—l am, etc., ■ -'■ ~-

RETURNED JtiAN.

[Th« medical authorities state that every returned man in. the MedicafCbrpi 1 who has made application for his release had been disesha.i'ged, And this policy would be continued. An effort was now being- made to enlist a number of men, Voluntarily, for h6me service in th 6 New ' Zealand Medical Corps for a period' of one, two, or1 three years, the Object being, as sufficient men to replace them were obtained, to release those men who' desired to be demobilised.: The rates of pay would be as follows fdr single and married men: Warrant Officer, (s.) 12s md (m.) 13s 8d; statf qtiartermSster sergearit, (s.) Us 9d, (m.) 13s Sd; staff sergeants; (s.) 11s 3d, (m.J 126 lid; sergeants, (s) 10s 9d, (m.) 12s Id; corporals, (s.) 16s 3d, (m.) 11s 3d; lanfce-corporals, Is.) 9s 9d, (m.) 10s 9d; privates; (s.) 95,. (m.) 10s. These were the daily rates of pay for seven days a week. Preference Would be given to, men possessing any of the following qualifications: Chemists, trained male nurses, operating room attendants and massuers. Promotion would be made from a general roll of the corps of n.c.o.'s and men who had passed the necessary corps examinations and. were recommended by their commanding, officers subject to the approval of the Direc-tor-General of Medical Services.]