RETURNED SOLDIERS
GOVERNMENT TREATMENT CRITICISED CASE OF WOUNDED MAN (0.C.) WELLINGTON, Aug, 27. A statement that no very satisfactory action for the rehabilitation of returned soldiers could be expected from the present Government was made by Mr F. W. Doidge (Opposition, Tauranga), speaking in the second reading debate on the'National Development Loans Bill in the House of Representatives to-night. “We remember the attitude of this Government before the war when the sight of a man in khaki was anathema to it,” he said. Government members: That is not correct. In reply to the Speaker, Mr Doidge said that Government members had referred to the rehabilitation of returned men, and he was trying to show why. its intentions in that respect should be suspect. He said that when a returned soldier of the. present war, who had lost an eye, went to travel from Whangarei for medical examination he was given only a second class fare and was told that provision - would be made for him to share a room in a Salvation, Army shelter, ' . In reply to the Acting Prime Minister, Mr Doidge said that he would supply the particulars of this and of another case ’of alleged unfair treatment which he quoted.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24697, 28 August 1941, Page 9
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