PAY TO INVALID SOLDIERS
\ Complaints that New Zealand soldiers in English hospitals and convalescent homes are considerably embarrassed because their pay is withheld from them were made in the House oil Tuesday by Dr. Newman.
In reply, the. Minister of Defence described the system under which tlie New Zealand authorities in England kept in touch with the wounded men, provided them with comforts and did everything passible to assist tliem. Within a fow minutes of being discharged from hospital or convalescent homo, the men received their accumulated pay. The money was -withheld from the men while they were invalids or convalescents, because it had been found by the. British authorities that a certain proportion of the men when they had funds invariably harmed themselves or retarded their recovery. All -the men' .were treated alike, and had their pay withheld. They v were provided with everything they could reasonably require, and in addition were allowed to spend up to three shillings per week through the authorities. This was the system adopted by the British Army, and the .Army Council urged New Zealand to adopt the same system.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2592, 14 October 1915, Page 7
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186PAY TO INVALID SOLDIERS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2592, 14 October 1915, Page 7
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