THEIR REWARD.

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THEIR REWARD.

Writes my Wellington colleague : " The facts brought to light by the Auckland R.S.A. regarding the conditions obtaining at Featherston Military Hospital have aroused a widespread feeling of indignation in this city, and doubtless it is the same in Auckland. That men who have risked their lives for us, and have contracted, in many cases, heart disease and other terrible ailments while fighting for the Empire, or as the result of fighting for it, should be insufficiently clad, and forced to eat from badly chipped enamelware (that fruitful cause of appendicitis), and tin plates thickly encrusted with rust, and put up with other hardships and indignities—fancy foor fellows stricken with heart-trouble being compelled in some instances, to carry loads of firewood—these things are positively shameful. These unfortunate men deserve the best we can give them —and they have been treated like dogs. Hundreds of thousands of pounds have been raised by the generous New Zealand public for the benefit of our returned soldiers. What has become of all this money ?—does anybody know ?