THE DISABLED EX-SOLDIER
PLEA TO SYMPATHETIC EMPLOYERS.
A pba that employers should extend sympathy to disabled returned soldiers wa.s put forward by Colonel C. W. Melvill, officer cowiuuuding the AVellin&ton military district, in tlio course of his speech at the reunion dinner of tho officers of the Now Zealand Rifle Brigade, on Saturday evemilj. The pensions in New Zealand compare;! with thosi of other countries were very xood, eaid Colonel Melvill, but, at tho sumo time; 'it took u mini all hia timo to live on 4ii.per week, or -whatever be got, particularly if ho had n.family. Sometimes a disabled man took a iwsition which he al'tenvnrds felt ho could not fill with satisfaotio'i to himself and his employer so ho threw it up. "What wo want to obviate is that that employer ehpiiW think that returned soldier is a rotter," r.winrked Colonel ilelvill. "He ia leavins booausi.' he feels he connot carry out his ditties. Tam nfraid thut in soiao L-asos : the returned soldier has not got a very' good name anioiiKst the employers, t heard of a case in point in Pulmereton North tlio other day. A nmn came to me, to receive a Military Medal. I asked him if ho had a good job. He re-' plied that ho had had one,' but had to leave, lie was a joiner and received lO.s. a week p?nsion for n partial disablement, but fltahd thai he could not slund about all day. 'J. had to leave. r.iy jo!),' tlio man said, 'and now my employer is cursing me, nml callinj? mo a rottor." 1 pn>i». ; ii to fippak to that employer when I return to l'altncrstou North. It is [he very worst thin;; for anything like that to set about in tho country."
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 51, 24 November 1919, Page 3
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294THE DISABLED EX-SOLDIER Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 51, 24 November 1919, Page 3
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