PROTEST AND REPLY
Protest is made by "A Mother" at the treatment of people who met returned men recently. The day was extremely cold and wet, but the women had no shelter of any kind, and for several hours were only allowed to stand outside the iron gates on the wharf, in teeming rain and a very cold southerly. "Later, when 'women only' were allowed into a wharf shed, it was to find it practically empty, so surely one corner could have been set apart for those wishing to meet the men. May I ask the authorities, be they military, police, or Harbour Board officials, to give more thought to the treatment one expects to be given to human beings." It is stated by the Army authorities that next-of-kin were entitled to wait in the shelter of the clearing hospital, and that is where they should have been directed. It was not possible for the Army to interfere with the work on the wharves. _
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 86, 8 October 1943, Page 4
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164PROTEST AND REPLY Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 86, 8 October 1943, Page 4
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