DISABLED SOLDIERS
CANTEEN FUNDS BOARD
MORE ASSISTANCE URGED (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, June IS. Remits dealing with the employment of returned men were considered by the Dominion Returned Soldiers’ Association Conference. It was agreed that there was slid need for provision from the Canteen Funds Board and the National War Funds Council for the relief of distress Two remits were carried, one being not to reduce the allocations from these funds, and the other that disabled men over 50 years of age should be provided with work of a lighter nature than that usually afforded in a public works camp.
A recommendation was carried that the claims of an unfit soldier should not he overlooked in the Government’s unemployment programme. This displaced the remit brought forward in a much more detailed form.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22911, 19 June 1936, Page 14
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