THE RETURNED SOLDIER
EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS CRITICISM AT MEETING A request by the Minister of Transport, the Hon. R. Semple, that sympathetic consideration should be given to applications for taxicab licences received from returned soldiers, on the lines of a letter he had had from the Returned Services' Association, drew heated comment from Mr. R. Armstrong, at a meeting of the Metropolitan Licensing Authority yesterday. He said it was high-time such ministerial interference was stopped. When a soldier went into the Army, he said, he had a job to do, and when he came back he was a "returned civilian." The returned 6oldier humbug was all wrong. ' The Mayor, Mr. J. A. C. Allum: A soldier does not go to do his job, but our job. Mrs. M. M. Dreaver said the Minister's suggestion had been niisinterpreted. She had heard complaints that returned men of this war were not being treated as well as they might. The Minister's letter was received, on the motion of the chairman, Mr. J. Sayegh.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24195, 10 February 1942, Page 4
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