CANADIAN EX-SOLDIERS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 285, 30 October 1934, Page 5

CANADIAN EX-SOLDIERS.

EFFORTS FOR SETTLEMENT.

Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Oct. 29. An outline of the national policy of Canada to help returned soldiers was given to-day by Brigadier-General R. Ross, president of the Canadian Legion, who is on liis way to Melbourne. He said they were trying to get a group of those ex-soldiere who had established themselves to assist in finding work for men who were not permanently disabled. . The average returned soldier in Canada was 47 years of age. Men permanently unemployable received a pension of £8 a month; there were 6000 such men. The Legion’s difficulty was with the men who were partially disabled, and for these a scheme wee designed to help Canada s soldier settlement. The scheme was not altogether a success, though about 11,000 .of the 22,000 were still on the land. The loss to the Government was about £7,000 000 Adjustments and reductions of interest had been made and then an all-round cut of 30 per cent m the capital cost, the latest concession was that for every £1 worth of produce the returned soldier was subsidised £1 by the Government. This was of great benefit to the worker as against the slacker, and the Government became a true partner of the returned soldier.