DISABLED SOLDIERS
COMMISSION CONTINUES.' By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, October 30. At the Commission of Enquiry dealing with the unemployment problem of disabled soldiers, Mr Colquhon, Secretary df the Oamaru Returned Soldiers' Association, said the paramount desire of a majority of returned men was to obtain work of a permanent nature in preference to an economic or subsidiary pension. When in employment a soldier was more contented and his physn cal, moral, and mental condition was beneficially affected. The present system put a premium on indolence and in some cases dishonesty. His association suggested a revival of the underrate workers permit to disabled soldiers, with safeguards; Witness was willing' to see underrate workers permits granted to all returned soldiers whether or not the trouble was traceable to war service. Commissioner Harrison expressed the opinion that as time went on it would become increasingly difficult to prove disability was actually due to war service.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1929, Page 5
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