RETURNED SOLDIERS
[to the editor.] Sir, —Allow me space to express my views on a matter which, I am sure, is occupying the thoughts of many people in New Zealand, to-day. We recently welcomed home a large number of men from the Middle East, men who have been fighting undex’ the hardest of conditions Tor as long as three and a-half years. I understand these men are expected to return to the front after a short rest.
Is it just to expect them to return to those strenuous conditions when we have in this- country many thousands of men in essential industries, and under the protection of the Appeal Boards, a large number of whom are definitely not pulling their weight in the war effort? Our essential industries can do with the men recently returned, and there is no doubt they \Vould pull their weight on the home front as well as they did in the desert fighting. If our Division is to be kept up to strength then let an equal number of men now in industry go forward and replace the returned men. They have already done more for their country than any of us in industry can accomplish in a lifetime.—Yours, etc., G. BLAIR. Marlborough Street.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 August 1943, Page 4
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