POSTS FOR SOLDIERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17167, 22 May 1919, Page 6

POSTS FOR SOLDIERS.

DEFENCE APPOINTMENTS.

SIXTY VACANCIES FILLED.

CHANCES FOR DISABLED MEN.

No time has been lost by the Auckland Defence authorities in putting into operation the recently-announced policy of cmploying returned soldiers wherever pos-

| sible. The Selection Board, of which ! Lieutenant-Colonel J. E. Duigan, Q. 5.0., 1 | wag president, has completed its work. It' | considered about 150 applications from re- | turned men, all except one of whom was; I not in any employment. The single ex- | ception wan a man who had been earning' I six shillings a day on piecework in a J factory. The 60 vacancies in the district. | created by the demobilisation of men who 1 j had not been on active service, have been tilled. A fair number have been absorbed ' by the military police and the Narrow; N'eck camp gnara. The remainder have been appointed to District Headquarters i | staff, and to the various group area staffs' of the district. » ' | Among the men now employed on the | I headquarters staff are four who have lost' | limbs, three being clerks and one a mes-, i senger. Within a week all the appointees •' i will be at their work- In a few instances i it will be necessarv for the new men to; 1 understudy the old ones for a short; ! period.' Some of th« men engaged have! ' been grievously injured on service, but i ! the authorities believe that th e efficiency; • of the department will not be reduced by j ; the change. : The members of the Selection Board , i were astonished at the number of men, : j of all grades of unfitness, who are not in ; ' employment. " Many of these men, besidesj I many more who did not apply," said one i member, " will have to have training in , occupations suited to their disability." employment of women, j RETURNED SOLDIERS" PROTEST. j [BY telegraph.—mss ASSOCIATION.] i CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. , At a meeting of the Canterbury j District Repatriation Board to-night, j the eecretarv of the Returned Soldiers' ; Association, entered an emphatic protest : against the retention of girls in positions 1 previously fi'led by men who had gone to i the front, and who were now in need of : employment. He particularly mentioned ! in this connection the Hospital Board aud i various banks. A deputation was appointed to wait An various public bodies and institutions in connection with the employment of women with a view to having them replaced by returned soldiers.