DISABLED SOLDIERS

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 December 1929, Page 12

DISABLED SOLDIERS

MR McKANE’S EVIDENCE. Giving evidence at Christchurch on Friday, before the Ex-Soldiers’’, Rehabilitation Commission, Mr A. H. McKane, president, of the Greymouth Returned Soldiers’ Association, and a member of the Grey Patriotic Association, said that during the last two years the Greymouth Patriotic Society had dealt with 200 cases and assisted 170, to the extent of £763, which showed that there were still a number of fnen who were suffering some disability. The Patriotic Fund had nowfallen to £llOO. He suggested that the Repatriation Scheme be, introduced for giving those who relied' on occasional jobs and work created out of sympathy the option of benefiting under the scheme; also that a branch for unemployed discharged soldiers be run in conjunction with the Labour Department, with a view to getting private employers to interest themselves in assisting in finding employment, and where a man was suffering a disability to the extent of impairing his earning power the Repatriation Department subsidise his wages. He suggested further that men be allowed to work one full month before their economic pension be reduced or cancelled, and . that community farms be set up under proper supervision to employ “employable” war pensioners, single, and without dependants. . ■