FURNITURE FOR RETURNED SOLDIERS
Sir, —For the last week or so furniture has been appealed for over the air and in the papers for Territorial camps and I see a suggestion that every home should contribute. As I have recently returned from overseas and have been going into the question of’ setting up a home and furnishing it, I find that the only assistance-, apart from the usual State Advance loan, we can get is a furniture grant of £lOO, which has to be paid back at the rate of 10s a Week. Why not toughen these men up instead of making them into a mob of pansies. If they do get into action they will consider ‘themselves fortunate at’ times if they can sit comfortably on the ground, let alone in an easy chair. When I was in camp we only had forms to sit on and bare board tables and didn’t expect anything else. Why not organise an appeal for furniture for returned men?—Yours, etc., FIRST ECHELON.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4536, 13 February 1942, Page 5
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