RETURNED SOLDIERS.
CONFERENCE IN WELLINGTON UNEMPLOYED QUESTION. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 15. The R.S.A. conference resolved that the scheme of economic pensioners having to report weekly at the Labour Department be discontinued and that strong representations be made to the Government for the problem of the unemployed disabled soldiers to be investigated thoroughly by tiie Department of Scientific Research with a view to utilising as much as passible of the present productive material which, but tlio creation of a roll of unemployed, is being quietly laid aside at tiie cost of ‘some thousands of pounds per annum. The problem of unemployment of the unfit also includes civilians and a scheme for the employment of such men could he extended to embrace those persons injured in industrial pursuits.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 168, 15 June 1927, Page 2
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128RETURNED SOLDIERS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 168, 15 June 1927, Page 2
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