SOLDIERS' PLIGHT
SLEEP IX PARKS IN AUSTRALIA
Special Australian Correspondent. Rec. 9.30 a.m. SYDNEY, this day. Soldiers on leave in Australian cities are sleeping in parks and tramway waiting sheds because cheap accommodation is not available to them. This disclosure has shocked Australia and raised a strong public demand that immediate steps be taken to provide suitable accommodation.
The Australian Comforts Fund Organisation to-day announced that if army approval was given it would take over one of Sydney's leading hotels as a soldiers' hostel and open the establishment within a week. Some newspapers claim that the inability of soldiers to secure cheap accommodation illustrates a need for an increase in soldiers' pay. However, political correspondents state that the new Budget will contain no provision for increases. The cost of the suggested 50 per cent rise in pay for servicemen has been estimated at £30,000,000.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 173, 24 July 1942, Page 5
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