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LEAGUE TO RE-ESTABLISH SOLDIERS FARM COLONY NEEDED ( Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON. June 20. The New Zealand Soldiers’ Civil Re-establishment League, in view of the fact that the number of men needing assistance in employment is increasing with the years, proposes to create public interest by additional activities during the Centennial celebrations and has taken 500 feet of space at the exhibition. Goods are being purchased throughout the Dominion from disabled soldiers, for sale. This was contained in a report to • the annual Dominion Conference of the League. The chairman, Mr. J. I. Goldsmith, said that each year more returned soldiers were breaking down in health. Men found the strain of the war years taking its toll and this was forcing them to give up regular employment. It appeared to him that the work of the league would tend to increase rather than decrease for «ome years to come. Mr. Goldsmith also referred regretfully to the fact that it had not \et proved possible to establish a farm colony for disabled soldiers, but it was increasingly evident that either a veterans’ home or farm colony scheme would have to be provided in the near future for burnt-out i ex-soldiers. The meeting adopted the report and statement of accounts.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 144, 21 June 1939, Page 12
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209EXHIBITION SPACE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 144, 21 June 1939, Page 12
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