PREFERENCE GIVEN
UNEMPLOYED EX-SOLDIERS
(Per Press Association.! WELLINGTON, this day. In a question to the Minister of Employment in the House of Representatives yestprday, Mr. A. J. Stallworthy (Coal., Eden) asked whether immediate steps would be taken against tho action of t)ie Unemployment Board in sending returned soldiers against their will to unemployment camps. The lit. Hon. J. G. Coates said that no discrimination was made between returhed soldiers and other unemployed men in regard to placing them iff camps. A certain amount of preference had, in fact, been extended to ex-sol-diers by arranging special camps for them, and also in not taking into consideration disability pensions not exceeding 17s fid per week.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17945, 24 November 1932, Page 3
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