“On the Cheap"

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20618, 20 November 1941, Page 8

“On the Cheap"

gir i recently received from the Government Publicity Officer 10 copies in one envelope of a 29-page booklet. >q i “New Zealand's War Effort." Under the heading of “Economic Stability” I lie id a lenient is made that “tin? Government has taken steps to ensure Ihat the economic shocks resulting from the war will not be borne by particular sections of the community,” also that “wage-earners below £5 per week are helped by extended family allowances.” Apparently the invalided soldiers who have been returning for some months past are considered “shock proof” when we find that during recuperation and pending discharge they are deprived of their military pay and value of allowances and arc compelled to accept a miserable pittance totally inadequate to live on. Are all the councils and committees set up, allegedly for the welfare of our soldiers, waiting until the men are forced lo go begging from them, or is the constitution of these bodies so stifled by Government control, that they are not in a position to raise a Dominion-wide protest arid just leave it to the returned soldiers of the last war. OLD SOLDIER.