IMMIGRANT SOLDIERS

Evening Star, Issue 19999, 17 October 1928, Page 1

IMMIGRANT SOLDIERS

RiSHT TO I IMPERIAL RELIEF A BUROEH OH NEW ZEALAND FUKD3 [l’,.it U.sn'ni) Ti.mss Asmji I.MION.] WELLINGTON, October 17. Representatives of the Relumed Soldiers’ Association met, Mr Skevington, ot the British Treasury Ollier, who took Lord Lovat’s place, to discuss tho position of os-lmpcrial soldier-. Tho president New ,h‘;ii;i!i<! tie;)ntation staled that <0 per cent, ol the eases being dealt with by I lie National War Funds Council acre ex-lm-pcrial men, and urged that the right to participate in the money available m England should ho extended to men now resident here. 1t wms pointral out that the money raised in New Zealand was lor ihe specific purpose of assisting New Zealanders, but was now being .spont. mi immigrant soldier.--, ’On Hm other band, assistance was retimed lo New Zealanders at Home. A letter was read irom a New Zealand soldier, who said lie laid applied to live different tmul-, and bail been told that as he was a New Zealander Jm had better apply to New Zealand. I lici e were now 14.00(1 ex-lmperial soldiers in iho dominion, and they would soon have more oi Ihein than ol our own men. _ . Air Skcvkgtoii said lie would place the points raised belovo laird .Lovai. A furtlici point was raised that o’ the number ol men arriving who mv physically unlit. Mr iSkevington said flint unless men came out under i he_ assisted passage sehemc medical examination would nol apply.