TRUE SOLDIER SPIRIT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10868, 7 April 1921, Page 5

TRUE SOLDIER SPIRIT

A WELLINGTON CASE. “THE SPIRIT THAT WINS.” As Bhutsaimg the splendid grit and perseverance exhibited by maimed men Undergoing vocational training, the Director of RepatSaticm (Mr J. R. Samson) showed a “Time*” representative yesterday ~ specimens (nob specially dene but just pages tom out of his hook) of the accountancy work turned out tqr ana of them. The man in question had the misfortune to lose both arms by war service, the right arm being taken off at the shoulder, and he now writes with the sod of an artificial left arm. The writing is almost incredibly good undercircumstances. It would, in tact, do credit to any man with the full tine of both hands; and the instructor certifies that the method of aettiiqg out and working the accounts Ji absolutely correct. _ “Before the war,” stated Mr Samson, ■‘the trainee was. a farmer. He has been attending the Repatriation Department's special soldiers’ commercial classes at Wellington, of which Mr E. IV. Cameron is the instructor, and he has recently sat for the first section of iris accountancy examination. Every one, I am sure, will wish a man who has shown such pluck and determination every success in the career he has cbceen. Has case, I am glad to say, h jest typical of the fine spirit exSnbifhd by our maimed men.”