PROTECTING SOLDIERS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12646, 2 June 1919, Page 5

PROTECTING SOLDIERS.

A BOOMERANG MEASURE. C s}■ to ; daj ’ s meeting of the Returned boldiers Association Conference, the president (Dr Boxer) said that he had received a notice of motion that the conference should resent the ambiguitv of the “Gazette” notice of May 2. 1919, relating to the suing of returned soldiers for debt, and express the opinion that the inference that returned men needed protection in this direction was distinctly discreditable, hut the delegate who had moved it had left the conference. Mr C. AY Batten said that the regulation was designed to protect the Government, for it referred to the soldier who was assisted by the Government. It was a genuine attempt to help the soldier and protect the Government, but it was uiioJv to be a boomerang measure, like the prohibition of distraining on returned soldiers for rent. In consequence of this a soldier could not get a house for love nor money, us nobody would let a house to a soldier because they could not distrain for rent or kick him out. Ho moved that the executive should take legal advice and watoh carefully the effect of the regulations and any other legislation relative to judgment proceedings against soldiers. The motion was carried.'