OPINIONS IN AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20560, 10 May 1930, Page 13

OPINIONS IN AUCKLAND.

VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS.

VIEWS OF EX-SOLDIERS

"Tho recommendations of the commission appear to follow, in a number of instances, tho suggestions made at tho conference of tho New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association lust year, said Mi. E. 11. Sharpe, secretary of the Auckland branch of the association. Howevei, in tho absence of a detailed report it would be impossible to givo a considered opinion." The reduction of the age for eligibility for the old age pension in the case of returned soldiers was a point supported by the association, Mr. Sharpe said. With regard to the suggested formation of a Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment League, the scheme was not quite clear, but it appeared to incorporate suggestions made to the commission when it sat in Auckland. _ . "The recommendations are mainly in support ol requests which wo have been making for years," said Mr. A. C. _A. Sexton, vice-president of the association. "If they are adopted they will be of great assistance." The scheme to provide recipients of the economic pension with some measure of employment was a step in the right direction. One of the most practicable suggestions was that for the formation of a corps of commissionaires and tho employment of men as liftmen, watchmen and messengers. A similar scheme had been adopted.in England with considerable success.