REPATRIATED MEN
THERE has been much said and much written about the care and attention which this country intends to afford the men coming home from overseas,, wounded or invalided. A local case however has been brought to our notice whereby it is claimed that one wounded man who saw service in the Libyan campaign, was captured and recaptured and finally repatriated has been having a fairly shabby innings since his arrival. This man, it is stated, received his full pay until he entered a New Zealand institution for treatment. He was then automatically transferred to the Social Security Scheme, whereby he is entitled to the munificent sum of 10/- per week. Sin*<fe then he has been operated on three times and as ja, result of his wounds is likely to be in hospital for an indefinite period. If ten schillings is all the country can afford to *pay a man who comes back wounded after fighting for us, then we have been grossly misled by the flowery promises which the average man believes will be made good as soon as a soldier has been incapacitated. What is the true position ?
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 17, 23 October 1942, Page 4
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191REPATRIATED MEN Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 17, 23 October 1942, Page 4
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