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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17288, 2 October 1916, Page 11

"Tho work which this Department is performing now is nothing compared with what it will have to undertake when tho war comes to an end and an army of fifty or sixty thousand men bonnmea disbanded," said tho Don A. D. Herdman, referring to the activities of the Returned Soldiers' Information Department. "We can cope with the work now. That is evidenced by the circumstance that out of 5515 men who havo returned (and' of whom a number ore not yet fit for civil employment) we have disposed of 449-1 men. Dut when 7 como to contemplate, say, 60.000 men landing in New Zetland, of which number perhaps 60 per oont may look to the State to find suitable employment for th«n. 1 begin -.o realise that tho work which the Dn purtment will then have to execute will bo both difficult and strenuous. _ Tfe officers of my Department are anxiously considering this phase of the discharge soldier problem now, and we hope to devise some practical sehomo which Mill go a long way in the direction of overcoming the difficulties which arc certain to arks."