MAIMED SOLDIERS' BAND.
APPEALS IN THE STREET. A. and N.Z. SYDNEY, May 12. The city is overrun by returned soldiers' bands. At every street corner the ptiblio arc exploited by limbless and otherwise maimed soldiers, pushing colI lection boxes under people's noses. The public outcry against what is regarded as a. scandal resulted in the Lord Mayor informing the Limbless Soldiers' Asso- : ciation that' on'y two or three bands ■would be allowed in the streets, the police being empowered to remove the {rest, also that the collections will be controlled, the men being allowed so much (weekly, the balance going to the assoj ciation's funds. The Lord Mayor states he ascertained j that tho men refused to enter the hostel )or accept Red Cross assistance, because good money was to be made by begging at the street corners- He learned that limbless men were being hired from Melbourne and elsewhere at £4 a week to collect in Sydney streets.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18089, 13 May 1922, Page 9
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