RETURNED SOLDIERS
I w MEN FROM PRESENT WAR NONE WITHOUT EMPLOYMENT (0.C.) * WELLINGTON, June 11. A denial that soldiers who have returned from the present war were unemployed in Auckland was given by the Acting Prime Minister, Mr Nash, in reply to a question by Mr J. A. Lee (Democratic Labour, Grey Lynn; in the House of Representatives today. Mr Lee called attention to advertisements for work for five returned men. “The procedure in connection with returned men sets out that every serviceman whose medical condition permits is interviewed by the repatriation division of the National Service Department, and efforts are made even while the mam is still on "leave to arrange for reinstatement in his pre-war employment or placement in other suitable work,” Mr Nash replied. Contact was then maintained for a minimum period of 10 -weeks in order to secure that the work was proving suitable. ' So far as could be found on inquiry into the five Auckland cases, Mr Nash spud, at least three were-not returned soldiers, of the present war. With one exception, all fit returned soldiers of this war in Auckland were in employment. The exception was a man who had lost part of his arm in a bomb explosion, _and he was to begin work on June 16- The answer was that there were no men unemployed who could be employed.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24631, 12 June 1941, Page 11
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