THE WOUNDED.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13825, 21 July 1915, Page 5

THE WOUNDED.

STEERAGE ON THE BOATS.

SECOND CLASS ON TRAINS

COMPLAINTS IN PARLIAMENT.

\From ore own Correspondent.')

Wellington. July 20. The arrangements for Riding homo the wounded soldiers were- called into question in tho House- of Reprosentu-, ttves this afternoon. The first to complain was Mr Cmvin, who said tho returned men were giver, second-class passages on the steamer to Nelson and the West Coast. Anyone who knew the accommodation on those boats would realiso that it was not. suitable for wounded men. JJ-e had received telegrams from his district protesting agr-inst "Uie men being sent home in tho .steerage, and he certainly thought it was not good enough. The Hen. James Allen's reply was that the medical officer is&ued firstclass tickets if he considered the - men should travel first class. In ono ca:3O tho Department gave a first-class ticket jincl scut a. nurse with a man on the Pa toon a. Mr Glover brought a case before the Minister in which a wounded soldier with a bullet in his breast had been unablo to leave by the hospital tram tor Auckland last week, and had now been given a second-class ticket. Siirelv, said t,h o member, that was not the way to treat wounded men. He thought that a first-class railway ticket might .at the least have been granted to "such a man. Air 'Vll<>:i replied that a soldier got a scoontl-cla*!, ticket unless the medical officer aclused that" ho should got a: first-class ticket.