WOUNDED AND INVALIDED SOLDIERS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 27 September 1915, Page 4

WOUNDED AND INVALIDED SOLDIERS

AND THE RELIEF FUNDS.

m pSSefe mmm wmm ¥£&W& seme mo re was made to set tiuTLXto while recently m Wellington It vSs the general principle of the thine which needed to be put right. l£f £)en referred to did not go from New Zealand to the front, bit were NeJ Zealanders who had enlisted at h££ Something ought to be done for Si

w£l P^ slden* JI agreed with Mr Wmks. The world was a pretty hardplace to be turned adrift in. No resolution was passed, and the matter was allowed to droo.

Subsequently a Hawera Star reporter had a conversation with one of the men concerned, who happened t6 be..m Hawera. He said he^enlisted ( from Canterbury, and- went out *it£ 'the mam body to.the Gallipoli PeS sula. He had only been there two days when he became sick, and was sent to the hospital in Egypt Later }\ Wa\l nVali dl d back to New Zealand, although he had made a request }A to be sent to England, where h£ J parents were. He with three or four * others were' recently discharged from a convalescent home in Wellington. with. only their pay. This was Is a nJ ll \°T °f- Privates, and was not enough, for sick men could not stay m hotels, or travel, -or obtaia delicacies on that sum per day His three mates and himself had not received any billeting allowance nor were they told anything about the rnoneys which had been subscribed for • the sick and wounded soldiers He was not mentioning the matter 'so much tor himself as for his fellow soldiers, one of whom had permanently lost the Uj e oX hls arm through being woundc' i. T e s Peaker) had a good pair ot h?nds, and when discharged m a fortnight or a month—he had been passed as medically unfit for further service—ne would be able to work later on; but. those who had been wounded would not be able to do so tor many a day. And no doubt there were many cases where immediate assistance was deserved and necessary. >