BELATED ADVICE ABOUT SICK SOLDIERS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2767, 10 May 1916, Page 7

BELATED ADVICE ABOUT SICK SOLDIERS

SYSTEM* STILL : IMPERFECT. It has 'been .assumed by most people in the Dominion that the matter of reporting on;sick and wounded New Zealand soldiers had been straightened out and perfected since the awful Hay-time of last year, yet it appears that the system still halts and jerks most nueerly. As long ago as November last one Wellington man was "sent to the hospital from Annao Cove, and after treatment at Cairo and subsequently in England, he has been fortunately, restored to health. Yet this week his.' mother in Wellington received' telegrams, from the Prime Minister, the Minister of Defence, and Sir Joseph Ward sympathising with Tier on her son's illness (he had enteric fever), and it was reported in the official hospital list that is cabled from England, that he was sent. to hospital about May 2. The mother of the lad received a slight shock at receiving 'so much political .'• sympathy in one - dose, but as she - had received a cablegram this week saying that ho was having a- grand time and to send home more money her .fears were dispelled. As there are sixteen names (of enterics) in the list containing the name of ihe young man specifically referred to, it will perhaps relievo the -relatives of these to know-that there 1 is possibly a mistake in reporting these . sixteen men as having gone into hospital.again in England.