REPATRIATION
GENERAL RICHARDSON'S VIEWS.
MEN MUST BE RETURNED TO FORMER STATUS. Press Association. AUCKLAND, May o. The question of repatriation was di,s-_ cussed to-day by Brigadier-General G." B. Richardson, , who arrived by the Remuera. He said the whole country should unite in-putting the men bacK into their old positions, just as it did to send them away to fight. The men did not want to be spoon-fed,, nor aid' they require anything to which'the,y ( were not entitled, but it was essential that they should be provided with the necessary opportunities to enable them to return to citizenship. They must have them.
Before he left England ho held * meeting of 200 permanently disaoled men, and he was deeply impressed at the Keen interest they displayed in their future, careers. Apparently their one desire was that they should be afforded opportunities in New Zealand to take up work suitable to their physical condition. The seriousness-pt the problem facing the country would be, appreciated when it was realised that we had been sending men away for four and n-hnlf years and we-wore now required, as a duty, to restore them to then - former status iu as many months.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10272, 6 May 1919, Page 4
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195REPATRIATION New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10272, 6 May 1919, Page 4
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