"BORDERLINE CASES"
RETURNED SOLDIERS SEEK HELP.
“We have been getting a good number of borderline cases lately,” said the chairman of the Wellington War Relief Association (Mr L. O. H. Tripp) at a meeting on Wednesday. “These are men who had long service, and were discharged fit. and who are now breaking down. They have, in most cases, applied for pensions, but the attitude of the Pensions Board is that they can not conneot such cases with the war. And they arc probably right. We have been taking a generous view. If the man applying has had long service, and his health has become impaired, wo consider it a case for help.” Mr C. M. Luke: There were many, too, so eager to leave the ship that they got away as soon as possible, and six or nine months afterwards they found their health had been undermined as the result of lowered resistance caused by their war service. Mr W. Ferguson: There were many such cases.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 2 June 1923, Page 8
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