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Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1588, 17 March 1919, Page 7

During the course of: his speech' at the laying of the foundation-stone of the Upper Riccarton Memorial Library on Saturday, Dr H. T. J. Thacker/M-P., took the opportunity of attacking the Government for its treatment of returned soldiers. This treatment, stated the speaker, was absolutely disgusting. The Repatriation Fund was locked up for three or four years, and the men were being stinted in all directions. It was a scandal the way the National Government was arranging for the men who were coming back. These sick and wounded men were being knocked about, and were being forced back to their work. Australia would not let them work until they were again fit; and that was the treatment they should receive here.

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