DISABLED SOLDIERS
REHAB I CITATION PLANS START TO P.E MADE (Per Press Association). Wellington June 137'he announcement dial tire Government was making an immediate star.: to. nut into operation the Disabled Soldiers’ Civil Re-establish-ment Act passed las: year, was made by the lion .1. G. Cobbe to-day. Although the Act had been on the Statute Book since October the Government. had been unable owing to the depression and iinanee stringency to set the machinery in inoton. As financial arrangements liad now been completed it had been decided to appoint almost, immediately local advisory committees', nominations for which alt interested bodies, except the New Zealand Employers’ Federation. and at the same time appoint: employment officers who wilt co-op-erate with committees When these appointments have boon made the Pensions Department- will be in a position to receive arid deal with applications from ex-soldiors \v isliing to avail i hem selves of the provisions of the aet.
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Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2450, 20 June 1931, Page 5
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