GUMMING UP REHABILITATION EFFORT
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WELLINGTON, May 28. Some members of tlie R.S.A. were "gumming up tlie works" of rehabilitation in New Zealand, said the Minister of Beliabilitatioxi, Major C. P. Skinner, to tke Dominion conferen.ce of tlie N.Z.R.S.A. wlien ke said individual members were trying to violate regulations wliicli liad been brouglit in at the request of the R.S.A. to help rehabilitate returned men. "We have received complaints from the R.S.A. about the violation of building perniits and regulations, " said Major- Skinner. "I can tell you of members of the R.S.A. in Wellington who are flagrantly violating those regulations. Can't we do something about that?" Similarly others were trying to. circumvent the Land Saies Act. "I know what 1 am saying because I have seeu tlie.se thiugs as Minister, " he added. "Tlie R.S.A. was a complete crosssection of the coinmunity and inevital)ly must have a niarked effect on the economic Jife. The of^anisation liad aeliioved grcat tliings and could do more if it were used for the purpose for Avliich it was set up. Rehabilitation would work if cooperation continued. Wilhout it the Government could not make it work. ' ' '
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Chronicle (Levin), 29 May 1946, Page 7
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