HAIG SPEAKS OUT.
“MUDDLE AND MEANNESS.” LONDON, July 1. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig giving evidence before Select Committee on Pensions, startled the members by hotly denouncing official delays, muddling and meanness. Ho found the conditions at the end of 1918 appalling. The necessity for pensioning officers .bad been discussed for three years, but nothing had been finalised. The present state of affairs was positively inhuman. For example, a disabled married officer with 23 years service was expected to subsist on 5s a day. Hundreds of men were suffering from gassing, shell-shock, neurasthenia, or tuberculosis ,and they ought to receive £2 a week. Sir Douglas Haig commented sharply on the trade unions objecting to the employment of Government-trained men in the principal industries. He suggested the appointment of a single authority to co-ordinate departmental work relating to pensions and military employment.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1919, Page 3
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140HAIG SPEAKS OUT. Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1919, Page 3
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