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DEMOBILISATION PLAN SCHEME BEFORE CABINET Plans for the orderly demobilisation and return to civil life of ex-service-men and women were already before the Cabinet, said the Director of Rehabilitation, Mr F. Baker, addressing members of the Wanganui Rehabilitation Committee. The armed services. Returned Services’ Association, and the Rehabilitation and Nation;.' Service Departments had helped to design the scheme, he said. Mr Baker added that demobilisation had, to a large extent, been started. The Minister of Defence, Mr F. Jones, had announced last July that 64,000 members of the forces were overseas then and that 40,000 had returned. It could be assumed that the number overseas now was approximately the same. Demobilisation would not be such a huge problem, provided there was a sensible scheme. If the plan before the Government were adopted, it should ease considerably the problem of returning the men and women of the services to civil life.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25798, 20 March 1945, Page 4
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