CONVALESCENT SOLDIERS.
FUTURE SERVICE AT FRONT STATEMENT BY MINISTER. [BY TELEGRAPH. —SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ] Wellington, Friday. The position of convalescent soldiers •who hare been invalided home to New Zealand from the front has never been exactly defined. It was announced by cable that in Australia men who are invalided will be sent forward if they recover sufficiently to be again fit for service. The Hon. J. Allen, Minister for Defence, said tonight that the same rule would be observed in New Zealand. If men recovered sufficiently to be fit to return to the front they would be drafted to a contingent of reinforcements, but the arrangement made with the Imperial authorities was that no men likely to be fit for service again would be sent back. Mr. Allen could not say how many of the men already sent back would be fit to return to the front or whether any would be fit to serve again.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16026, 18 September 1915, Page 9
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