REHABILITATION

Waikato Times, Volume 131, Issue 21910, 14 December 1942, Page 2

REHABILITATION

MR SEMPLE’S VIEWPOINT GREAT SCHEME ENVISAGED GREYMOUTH, Sunday A comprehensive scheme cf rehabilitation, including complete reorganisation of the Public Works and other departments .was visualised by the Hon. R. Semple, who recently was reallocated the portfolios of Minister of Public Works and also Rehabilitation, at a complimentary banquet at Hokitila. on Saturday. “When this terrible blood cloud is past I propose to make full provision for our boys,” said Mr Semple. “We have got to build homes for our valiant boys when they come back We have to see to it they do not live in a slum or in a bond of charity. “They are to find a place in the great scheme of things and look upon the earth with dignity and security, the same as those they have suffered and fought for. I make a vow that these boys have to be protected and rewarded for their great sacrifices and courage and blood spilled to save civilisation. They have to be rewarded not in mere words but in deeds and actions. ‘I am not going to see our boys go on to undeveloped farms as they did after the last war. lam going to put bulldozers and angle-dozers on the land so that they can earn an income as soon as they step on it. There will be no pick and shovel.”