DISCHARGE OF SOLDIERS.
COMPLAINTS FROM DUNEDIN.
[BT TELEGRAPH.OWN CORRESPONDENT.) DUNEDIN. Tuesday. The recent action of the Travelling Medical Board in discharging a number of soldiers who have been receiving medical treatment is still agitating the Returned Soldiers' Association, and formed the subject of a lengthy discussion at the general meeting of the association last night. One member said they had information that five cases out of the 14 complained of had been reviewed and their discharges cancelled, but what about the other nine' Some of them had had no word yet, and had got no satisfaction. He himself had a foot without feeling and a partially withered leg, but had got his discharge in spite of this. The secretary of the association Mr G M. Smith, said the local medical headquarters did not anticipate that anything more would be done in the cases of which no word had so far been received Colonel McDonald said that BrigadierGeneral McGaviu, the director-general of medical services, would be teaching Dunedin that evening. It was decided that a deputation wait on the director and place the whole position before him.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17333, 3 December 1919, Page 8
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