DEPUTATION TO MR MASSEY.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 126, 31 May 1920, Page 8

DEPUTATION TO MR MASSEY.

I A^TELLINGTON, May 31. Many matters of vital importance to tubercular men of the New Zealand 'Expeditionary Force were brought before the Prime Minister to-day by a demitation from the Returned Soldiers' Conference.

In reply Mr Massey said that there ■were many difficulties in connection vith the repatriation of soldiers, and probably "the questions affecting T.B. jrien were the most difficult of all. The Government had a duty to perform, and it, would do it to the best -of its ability. If the suggestions made could be given effect to they certainly would be adopted, for.'the noeds of the soldiers were in very sympathetic hands. Mr Massey added "that there had been suggestions that some men had Suffered- hardship in connection with their pensions, and therefore the Government contemplated setting up a special board—an Appeal Board if they liked to call it that.—to deal with such matters. The Government

would do everything possible to assist ar.en who had fought for their coun- ! try. and were now in need of assistj ance. ■