A WORD FOR “THE WASTERS.”
A good word was said for “the vaster” by Mr. d’A. S. L. Grut, of Wuinrnte, before the Rehabilitation Commission at Christchurch on Friday (states “The Press”). “This .man,”' he said, “gets little sympathy, and often less help, and yet in many cases he is nothing but a partially disabled man in another sense. Is it any wonder that, of •the thousands who left New Zealand, receiving their years of training to officially kill, and unofficial sanction to thieve when necessity dictated,- living in the squalor and degrading condition of the front line itreneh, there should be some who fail to readjust their mentality to the requirements of civilisation? Many of these ‘wasters’ would yet make good soldiers were war again declared, but no effort lias been put forward to train them again to be. good citizens. The handing over of cash tis in many cases the worst that can be done (o meet tlieir cases. 'Community settlements for partially disabled men seems to be the one and only solution.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40035, 5 December 1929, Page 3
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175A WORD FOR “THE WASTERS.” Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40035, 5 December 1929, Page 3
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