USING CANTEEN FUNDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20901, 17 June 1931, Page 10

USING CANTEEN FUNDS.

BENEFITING DISABLED MEN. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] . WELLINGTON, Tuesday. Tho suggestion that tho canteen funds should be made available to the Government so that effect might bo given to the Disabled Soldiers' Civil Re-establish-menfc Act was considered at a meeting, of tho Cantoens Funds Trust Board in Wellington. The decision of the" board has been forwarded to the Government.

This year the board has already voted £BSOO to. the Now . Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association for use in alleviating distress among ex-servicemen and it is considered that a further grant for the purpose of financing the rehabilitation scheme will make inroads upon tho accumulated .capital of- tho canteen funds. Tho money is needed for tho purpose of paying the salaries and expenses of four vocational officers established at each of tho four centres and for teaching purposes. The turn taken by economic events in the last year is taken to mean that there is little opportunity of placing partlydisabled men in work at present. This implies a modified system of rehabilitation work, efforts being directed at first to •-thß .train\ng„..ot. tho tnore. easily,; handled cases. Thus the plan, in its beginnings, would not be so costly as the full scheme.