USING CANTEEN FUNDS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 143, 19 June 1931, Page 7

USING CANTEEN FUNDS

BENEFITIN’ DISABLED MEN "WELLINGTON, Juno 17. The suggestion that tho canteen funds should be mad available to the Government so that effect might be given to the Disabled Soldiers’ Civil Re-establishment A was considered at a meeting of the Canteens’ Funds Trust Board in Wellington. Tho decision of tho board has been forwarded to the Government. This year the board has already voted £B5OO to the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association for use in alleviating distress among cx-scrvice-meii ami it is considered that a further grant for the purpose of financing the rehabilitation scheme will make inroads upon the accumulated capital of tho canteen funds. Tho money is needed for the purpose of paying the salaries and expenses of four vocational officers established at each uf the four centres and for teaching purposes. The turn taken by economic events in the last year is to mean that there is little opportunity of placing partly-disabled men in work at present. This implies a modified system of rehabilitation work, efforts being directed at, first to tho training of the mure easily handled cases. Thus the plan, in its 1 ginnings, would not be so costly as tho full scheme.