DISABLED BY WAR

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 102, 26 October 1929, Page 11

DISABLED BY WAR

LIGHT WORK WANTED

EX-SERVICEMEN* ENQUIRY

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) | ( DUNEDIN, This Day. . The first witness before the disabled ex-sorviccmen commission to-day. was an ex-Imperial soldier- who was discharged after serving for fifteen years. He was in tho Mous .retreat, and was captured at Le Cateau, being interned to tho end of the war. For a period of two jvars lie received 10s a week pension fur heart condition. He came to Dunedin in 1921, securing a position as a laboured in the Railways Department. In 102S heart trouble recurred, with hemmorrhago,' and he had not been able to resume work at Hillside. So far no lighter work had been offering by the Deparainent. He received 25s sick benefit, also 7s 6d weekly from a lodge. He was in the Red Cross Home, paying 25s a week for his board. Witness said he.would take a job as a porter, messenger, of liftman, anywhere in the Dominion. The next witness said he enlisted in 1916, saw three years' service, and was discharged on. a.pension, which was reduced and finally-stopped. He followed farming till 1926, and since-.then had been a casual labourer. .In. 1928 lie incurred, an injury, and had been advised not to undertake heavy manual work. He found it hard to obtain light work. He thought he could do light gardening or act as crossing-keeper, liftman or the like. . „ -