"BURN-OUT” EX-SOLDIERS
NEED FOR ASSISTANCE
[per press association.]
WELLINGTON, June 20.
The Soldiers’ Civil Re-establishment League, in view of the fact that the number of men needing assistance in employment is increasing with the years, proposes to create public interest by additional activities during the Centennial celebrations, and has taken 500 feet of space at the Exhibition. Goods are being purchased throughout the Dominion from disabled soldiers, for sale. This statement was contained in a report to the annual Dominion Conference of the League, to-day. The Chairman (Mr. J. I. Goldsmith) colony for disabled soldiers, but it was die.rs were breaking down in health, men who found the strain of the war years taking its toll, and forcing them to give up regular employment. It appeared to him that the work of the League would tend to increase, rather than to decrease, for some years to come. Mr. Goldsmith also referred regretfully to the fact that it had not yet proved possible to establish a farm colony for disabled soldiers, but it was increasingly evident that either a veterans’ home or a farm colony scheme would have to be provided in the near future for burnt-out exsoldiers. , , The meeting adopted the report and the statement of accounts.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 June 1939, Page 5
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