PROTECTING SOLDIERS’ BUSINESSES.
WELLINGTON, October 28. Regulations were gazetted on August 27 providing for the protection of soldiers’ businesses during the absence of the men on active service. The Minister of Defence stated to-day that under these regulations arrangements have been made for the management of a good many soldiers’ businesses, but the number of soldiers’ property boards of trustees appointed under the direction of the National Efficiency Board
was aot large. He hoped to see the scheme expand in usefulness. The Minister mentioned that he had in nis hand papers concerning one case in which a soldier's business had been protected, and he wished made public some of the details, in oSder to encourage other men who might be sear into camp to make arrangements for the conduct of their businesses. The man in Question, had been a gentleman's outfitter and retail wool salesman. The Efficiency Board had made arrangements with another outfitter to allow his assistant to take charge of the soldier's business under th<> direction of a board of trustees.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3372, 30 October 1918, Page 20
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