THE CARE OF THE WOUNDED.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1310, 3 June 1915, Page 7

THE CARE OF THE WOUNDED.

A question that is already engaging attention, and which will continue to do so, is as to what will be done to provide accommodation for our brave soldier boys who will be returning wounded to the Dominion requiring homes where they can receive every comfort. Many will not be fit to go into the back blocks for a long time. This matter is being taken up and already quite a number of well-to-do people in various parts of the Dominion have been offering their fine homes for the purpose. Some organisation will be required—our hospitals are not sufficiently large and it will not be many days before the first instalment of invalided men are brought back. Here and there in the City of Auckland since the war broke out there have been noticeable vacant tenements which would be most suitable and which their owners would no doubt be pleased to let on easy terms for the purposes of temporary hospitals for convalescents who have no homes, parents or relatives to go to, and who should be provided with the best substitutes. They all deserve well of their country, and should be welcomed back as warriors who have served it faithfully. Providing the Hospital Ship Maheno was a splen-

did move, and for its equipment there has been a most generous response to date. The wounded soldiers she will bring back to these shores will need a good deal of care to restore them, and ample provision will need to be made for all as they arrive. The men that left Auckland on Friday to go into camp at Trentham had an enthusiastic send-off by the citizens and many friends from the country, and are proud that they are to be given a chance of filling the places in the ranks vacated by the men who have so bravely done and those who are doing their duty in this titanic struggle.