RETURNED SOLDIERS' CONFERENCE.
A SUNDAY SITTING. ; (Per Press Association). i: CHIIISTCHURCH, June 1. The conference resumed to-day, Sunlay. ' . ■ \>n Mr McManus's suggestion, sec>nded l>y Mr Batten, it was agreed to tnke out a recommendation in the Repatriation report that an apprentice hould not marry until he was a comleteut ti-adesman.
A motion that all soldier apprentices hould receive the award rate was lost. A further motion that disabled men earning new trades should receive ward rates was also lost, Mr Batten jointing out that this would mean a ■ush to the highest paid trades, iy rhich there was no guarantee that a nan would ever become fully comletent. The policy should be to train nen to become independent of Governnent assistance.
It was resolved : ' 'That having regard the present great scarcity of houses n New. Zealand the Conference urges ni the Government the immediate and dressing necessity for State action towards building houses suitable for occupation by returned men and their Inpendents, so that it be not confined i> erecting blocks of houses on special Jovernment areas, but to distribute he houses in as many quarters -of the Bui as; ptrasi&le."
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 1682, 2 June 1919, Page 2
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191RETURNED SOLDIERS' CONFERENCE. Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 1682, 2 June 1919, Page 2
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