WAR AMPUTEES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 54, 1 September 1943, Page 5

WAR AMPUTEES

TWO-DAY CONFERENCE

"Our problems will be with the amputees of this war rather than those of the last war," said Mr. F. C. Allerby, president of the New Zealand war Amputees' Association, when addressing delegates to the annual conference of the association at Wellington today. The position of amputees as an Organisation had been strengthened during the year, he said, and the passage of certain legislation had improved the conditions of individual members.

/She conference, which was attended by delegates from all over New Zealand, was officially opened by Mr. C. O. Bell, vice-president of the New Zealand Returned Services' Association, who gave delegates details of recent pensions legislation. This measure, he said, possessed the full approval of the R.S.A. The tenor of the legislation was in favour of the applicant, and definite rules were laid down for the guidance of the examining medical board making . it mandatory for the board to draw certain conclusions in favour of the pensioner. In many instances It was not a question of whether or not a man should have a pension, but how much the pension should be.

The president gratefully acknowledged . the co-operation,.. given the association by the R.S.A.» both financially and in promoting beneficial legislation.

The annual report gave the membership at 422 for the Dominion, and said that a census taken recently revealed that there were about 600 Groat War amputees in New Zealand, and approximately 150 already returned from this war.

The conference at its two-day session will discuss pensions, rehabilitation, and repatriation problems,

Allies in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia by the conquest of North Africa, and bristles from China, the world's chief source, which are so precious for brushes that they are being flown out by aeroplanes. Thus world war has * dislocated world economy and brought about immense readjustments. It :is doubtful whether things will ever again be as they have been.

. James Edwin Bernard Miller, 20. * factory hand, pleaded guilty in tha Magistrate's Court today to a chargs of breaking, entering, and theft, and was committed by Mr, W. F. Stihvell, S.M., to the Supreme Court for sentence.