THE PROBLEM OF REPATRIATION.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 7563, 6 May 1919, Page 5

THE PROBLEM OF REPATRIATION.

GENERAL RICHARDSON'S VIEWS.

THE COUNTRY'S DUTY TO ITS

SOLDIERS

(Per Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, May 5

The question of repatriation was to-day by Brigadier-Gen-*eral C. S. Richardson who arrived by the Remuera. He said the whole country should uftite in putting the men back into their old positions, just as it did to send them away to fight. The men did not want to be spoon-fed, nor did they require anything to which they were not entitled; but it was essential that they bo provided with necessary opportunities to citizenship. They must ■lyt've them. Before he left England he held a meeting of 200 permanently disabled men, and he was deeply impressed at the keen interest they displayed in their future careers. Apparently their one aesire was that they be afforded opportunities in New Zealand to take up work suitable to their physical condition. The seriousness of the problem facing the country would be appreciated when it was realised that we had been sending men away for four and ahalf years, and we were now required as a duty to restore them to their former status in as many months.