DISABLED SOLDIERS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 4 June 1926, Page 8

DISABLED SOLDIERS.

EMPLOYMENT SCHEMES. By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, Juno 3. Tho employment of disabled exscldiers is one of the matters in which the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association is keenly interested, on behalf of those concerned. Tho annual report of the Association states that it is too early yet to arrive at any definite conclusions as to whether or not the scheme approved by the Pensions and Labour .Departments, which was put into active operation last February, is proving successful. So*far, however, it could bo said definitely that notices from the Pensions Department as to alterations in grants of economic pensions had contained more renewals of grants than cancellations. The fact of some £70,000 being expended annually in tho form of economic pensions for which the Government obtains no return by way of services', states the report, is «s unpalatable to the recipients of the money as it is to the general taxpayer. Surely if the Government can expend such a sum for no return, it can expend a further amount in an endeavour to provide vacancies or useful work for the permanent employment of a, majority of the men concerned. The •sub-committee lias recently heard of two avenues for employment of disabled soldiers in co-operative efforts, and it intends going thoroughly into tho matter at the first opportunity.