DISABLED SOLDIERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23378, 21 June 1939, Page 14

DISABLED SOLDIERS

CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT LEAGUE'S CENTENNIAL PLANS [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION-] WELLINGTON. Tuesday The Soldiers' Civil lie-establishment League, in view of the fact that the number of men needing assistance in t employment is increasing with the years, proposes to create public interest by additional activities during the centennial celebrations. It has taken 500 ft. of space at the exhibition and goods are .being purehased-throughout the Dominion from disabled soldiers for sale. This was information contained in a report to the annual Dominion conference of the league The chairman, Mr. J. L. Goldsmith, said-each year more returned soldiers, were breaking down .in health—men who found the strain, of the war years taking its toll and forcing thqn to" give up regular employment. It appeared to him that the work of the league would tend to increase rather than decrease for some years to come. Mr. Goldsmith also referred regretfully to the fact that it had not vet proved possible to establish a farm colony for disabled soldiers, but it was increasingly evident that either a veterans' home or a farm colony scheme would have to'be provided in the near future for "burnt-out" ex-soldiers. The meeting adopted the report and tLi statement of accounts.