R.S.A. CONFERENCE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 14, 13 October 1942, Page 6

R.S.A. CONFERENCE

REHABILITATION PLAN VARIOUS DECISIONS A vcrj* largely attended meeting of Returned Services' Association delegates from ten branches in the Waikato and King Country was held * ft in Hamilton recently for a discussion on rehabilitation in all its various aspects, and principally that of land settlement.. Statements recently made by members of the Government in regard to the land policy of the R.'S.A. had been considered disturbing, and the meeting decided that the public should lie informed through the. newspapers that the R.S.A. had never departed from the policy of the freehold tenure. It was decided, that it was imperative in the interests of returned men that each branch should l set up immediately its own rehabilitation committee, the functions being to compile data in regard to available occupations for returned men, and to assist their immediate needs. Land for Settlement Important decisions were made in regard to the tj r pe of land to be acquired for settlement, and the living each settler should be assured of as his moral right. Vocational, training in all its aspects for meeting local main centres should not be the sole location of factories; also that, in Hamilton there was the opportunity to .set lip a factory for the training of disabled men in the making of leather goods Avhich would bo used' by the farming community and the public generally, and provide permanent, employment for many incapacitated men.* Representations are to be made to the Government that all men accumulating twelve months' service in camp should be entitled to a full mufti allowance.