A SOLDIER'S COMPLAINT.

Evening Star, Issue 25471, 30 April 1945, Page 3

A SOLDIER'S COMPLAINT.

The following summarises a lengthy letter received from a" Returned Soldier Window Cleaner " :—About 18 months ago he was granted a loan of £3O by the Rehabilitation Committee (which he states has been good to him) to buy his tools of trade. He then found that he would need a car or truck to carry these to widely-separated jobs, and with back pay from pension he secured a car. He had lots of tyre trouble and repairs, and three months ago a reliable garage informed him the tyres were unusable. He applied to the Oil Fuel Controller for a new set, and after a wait of a month was told to get a report from a tyre service station. This "report duly pronounced the tyres non-retreadable and unfit to be on the road. Reapplying to Oil Fuel, he got a permit for two tyres only, and during the last two months it had cost him nearly as much as he had earned to have the other two repaired. Notes were given him by garages that these tyres were finished, and the Rehabilitation office asked Oil Fuel to give his case Sympathetic consideration. Now he had received a letter from the Oil Fuel office stating that as the vehicle, did not qualify for new tyres under the existing rationing system the issue of a permit could not be approved. The correspondent concludes: "I have always thought that I went away to fight so that when it was all over I and the. other boys would • be given the right to earn a living. Remember, ' Nothing is too good for our boys.' Evidently two tyres are."