SOLDIERS WHO BREAK DOWN.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14406, 17 May 1917, Page 9

SOLDIERS WHO BREAK DOWN.

DEMAND-'-FOia-'A REGULAR

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(U.KTTED PhbSS ABfiOCIATION.)

Qunedin, May 15. The G<nrCTjQment -again came in for strong c.ensure by membefs of the patriotic executive to-day relative to the treatment of soldiers. ' The following resolution was -cartied u;ianimously:— ''That this association desires to express tho opinion that reservists who have YcJunteered. or been called up, and, having passed the first medical examination, have subsequently broken d°wn in their^training,-or been rejected at the .sTifee'quent" medical examination, ought to be provided for by the Government on some fair basis of regular ollowanco unfc?] their health has- been restored und regular employment secured by them; and that the resolution bo forwarded to the Minister with a request £<?v an immediate reply."