SOLDIERS' WORKSHOPS

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13808, 25 September 1918, Page 4

SOLDIERS' WORKSHOPS

PROVISIONS IN AUCKLAND

Th© question of. workshops foa- returned sold'jefrs Avas referred-'.to by the Mayor (MrJ. H. Gumson) a« a mo3t : impoa*taint one, and one thai had beten. fully considered by tiie Joint Committee of tihe Red Ci:oss Society and the .Order of St. 3Tohn, which had* fallen into line with other centres of the Dominion in the ißßitter of policy -watih regard to wihuit was knowni as functional treatmanib. This was undouibtedly a Red Oross ' obligaitaomi, and an' important factor in rastoringt tihe sick and woundied to a oomdition which would i enable them to return to civilian, life I with a reasonable prospect of permanenib reooivery. A workroom at tihi© ainnexe had jußt been completed.: by the Joint. Coimmlittee at a cost of j over ;£,160Q.. ; Attendant facilities were also" beitig'pi-ovided of a practical mature" which" would make for ■bh<o coinivietnieiioa and be real service to the soldiei" patiients of the annexe. The :org|ainisatiion branch of the work was most important, amid this primiarily was under the control iof officers of tto Detfenoe Department. AiTangements had been made, : however, with ' the Min'isiter of pe- | fence that tihe executive of the Red Cpossi Sooioty should co-operate with the officiens of tih©' Departmenit in. regard to the provisiion of thia necessaay faoij;itl:esi at. tlie workshop. In addition to thie 1 workshop the I Patriotic As«ocdation. had pined forces with th©' Reid Gross! Society and ihad beoome responsible for. faoilitaesi' for rewetaition. The suib-ooTii-mdtitee, wShicih had been set up, had also under consideration, further questions, ■■■' such as the erection; of a pavilion for the use of thei men during the summer time in, connection with the bowling >gtreens mow being) : laid downi. The whole of this was beti inw don© not merely from the standj pointi of recreationi, but in order to provide facilities that'Woulbl be of real sarvioe durinig 1 their eniforced stay at tile hospital. The Auckland committee was- also interested, with other centres, in the woirkshops at ; Rotonia amd othea* disteiotis, and the j whole policy was a carefully devised. one froni' the Dominion stamdpoiinifc. —^Star/ ;■■'■ ;. ■■. '■ . ■.•"