RETURNING MEN

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 117, 16 June 1941, Page 5

RETURNING MEN

REPATRIATION SCHEME SUGGESTIONS FROM U.S.A. The repatriation .scheme must necessarily form a part of the postwar construction plan outlined by the Government, the repatriation committee of the N.Z.RS.A. conference reported to the annual conference last week, but the magnitude of thei plan made it slow of completion. In the meantime men were returning from the front and the committee recommended that a deputation should wait on the Government to stress the urgency of getting repatriation under way. An early start would have two advantages, the committee stated. It would provide for the mem who returned first and would give valuable experience while the numbers to be dealt with were still small. The committee recommended the introduction of legislation setting up a National -Repatriation Council with advisory committees throughout the country. Both the council and the committees should be representative of interested organisations, and service should be voluntary, the R.S.A. having the right to nominate its own members on all committees. The committee also recommended that full use should be made of the Soldiers' Civil Ret-establishment League for the rehabilitation of unfit or incapacitated men, and it was pointed out that the New Zealand War Amputees' Association, which existed within the N.Z.R.S.A., could assist with problems nffccting amputees by serving on the proposed committees.