PETURNED SOLDIERS STATUS
... ♦ ■ • ;■• At the adjourned: meeting of the Citir.eas' Defence CJommitteo '-yeaterday ternoon, the matter of tKe June regoniions for the protect'on of returned oldiers -n-as brought up. It. will he re;rembered that at a recent meeting of the committee a. resolution was;forward-t-d to t^ 6 Attorney-General. -It^^ was n oved by ' Mr. Stock, and was as fo*- < W8 : "That the attention of the Qovtrnment be called -to the fact that tne ■ rotect on of soldiers' . regulations' of June 2, 1919, doe« not protect advance." nude by banks' and approved trading companies to 'assisted returned: so!---d'ers,' but only to 'returned soldiers' .and 'recently 'returned eOidiersV and that m the opinion of the committee these regulations are. not m the best, interests • I ■• returned' soldiers." — : The AttbmeyOflneral, replied that he was unable to agree with the resolution, and contended that every recentlj- returned eoldieir. and [ ev?ry assisted ■.-..returned'' soldier is: neces-i. sai'iiy a returned soldier.— On the motion of the Chairman, the; letter yrns received.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14985, 12 August 1919, Page 3
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165PETURNED SOLDIERS STATUS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14985, 12 August 1919, Page 3
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