RETURNED SOLDIERS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3662, 20 May 1924, Page 69

RETURNED SOLDIERS.

CANTERBURY DISTRICT CONFERENCE. CHRISTCHURCH, May 14. At the annual conference of the Canterbury District Returned ri3oldiers’ Association the following resolutions were carried: — “That the attention of the Government be again drawn to the fact that there is still a large number of disabled soldiers capable of filling positions as clerks, liftmen, caretakers, messengers, crossingkeepers, etc., who are unemployed, and that a special endeavour be made by the Public Service Commissioner to place these men in suitable employment in the Government service.” “That tlie Goi'ernment be requested to give more attention to the after cal'e of T.B. and neurasthenic soldiers, and that more suitable avenues of light employment be opened up for these men.” "j-hat this annual general meeting of the Christchurch Returned Soldiers’ Association expresses its profound dissatisfaction with the action of the. War Pensions Board in over-riding in certain particular cases the decision of ■ ' e War Pensions Appeal Board, thus in-, iving the appellants in additional and unnecessary hardship. It urges that the headquarters of New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association should make the necessarv representations to the Government to ensure that the decisions of the War Pensions Appeal Board shall be given immediate effect to in every case.” “That the Canterbury delegates to the New Zealand Conference bo instructed to bring forward in debate the whole difficulty of the housing of immigrants and to move that a full inquiry be held with the object of promoting co-operation between the Government and the Returned Soldiers’ Association in finding a remedy.”

The two propejlora salvaged from the wrecked steamer Port Elliot, which ran ashore on the East Cape at midnight on January 12, have been conveyed to Auckland by the steamer Mako. The propellers, which measure 16ft across, are of solid phosphor bronze, and each weighs five and a-half tons. It is stated that they are valued at about £BOO each.