CARE OF WOUNDED.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 32, 8 June 1915, Page 7

CARE OF WOUNDED.

ARRANGEMENTS FOR TREATMENT. I*EH PbEBS As>‘ v IA (lON. Wellington, June 7. "The position in regard to uounced New Zealanders at the irons.” said the Hon. Jas. Allen today, ‘is that if men are likely to recover in time to be wanted at Gallipoli again they go to Malta or Egypt, and if they cannot be dealt with there they are sent to

England. The only men who are sent to England are those who will eventually go back to the front.” Those I who will not be fit to return, added the Minister, when they became convalescent, were to be brought back to New Zealand. The Government had ■no definite information yet as to when they would be able to be sent back or [when the men would get here. It arrangements with the existing hospitals were sufficient the Hon. R. H. 'Rhodes, into whose charge this matter bad been given, would select places from those under offer and equip them for the care of wounded. Every arrangement had been made by the Public Health Department, said Mr Rhodes. In regard to the existing hospitals, there was a good deal of room available at these institutions. They were obviously the best places to which to send the men. They were more convenient and comfortable, and the cost would be less to the public. It must not be thought that men are coming back to go into hospitals in any large numbers. They would go to their homes if sufficiently recovered. For instance, a wife of a wounded man had already written to ask that her husband be allowed to go home, so‘that she could nurse him, and it was obviously the kindest and best thing to do to allow our men to go to their homes and be cared for. The Minister added that the buik of the mounted men of the main expeditionary force are lighting on the Gallipoli Peninsula as dismounted troops, and there may be some of the second reinforcements there. The mounted men volunteered for this service.