“SPLENDID CHAPS WHO ONLY WANT WORK”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 382, 16 June 1928, Page 1

“SPLENDID CHAPS WHO ONLY WANT WORK”

CASE FOR EX-SOLDIERS

SECRETARY EXPLAINS

“The great majority of returned men ar e splendid chaps, who only want work, and the tragedy of it is they cannot get it. The partlydisabled man is in even a worse position, as he cannot stand up to heavy work.’* In a letter expressing his thanks to The Sun for its support, th e secretary of the Auckland Returned Soldiers’ Association, Mr. E. H. Sharp, explains some of the disabilities under vhich the association is working. “Although we have been able to do lots, there is still much to do, and this cannot be done without money. We know that we hav® the moral support of the vast ma>JTity of returned soldiers, but our list of financial memwrs should be much larger and I am sure, would be. if the returned soldiers realised what work is being ®°ne,” he says. GENEROUS PUBLIC “The public treated us very generously on Poppy Day with the result that the sum of £1,150 was handed o J’er to the trustees of the fund. They jujeated £370 to th© various local oodles under a subsidy of £ 1 for £ 1 tor til© employment of ex-soldie.rs in Jjaerent boroughs, and £ 390 has been located to the City Council under f“ ba| dy, leaving £4oo. This sum has , ea used to subsidise private emand to relieve serious cases “tstress, but unfortunately this has bin w n Bpent * A total of 151 jobs nt? k en subsidi sed privately and re•et has been given in 9S cases, ln- . ded in these last are cases (only ie\v) where the fares of men have n paid to enable them to get work, fa-* association has always set its exr«rv?- 6ainst appealing to the public, heln fi g ° n Poppy Day, but 1 cannot And*. that your comment on Sir m ' ew Russell's tacit appeal is, in cases, justified. “SPIRIT OF 1914”

showing that the old spirit of dier* 18 Still existiS among ex-sol-vev, *J na , y 1 quote a recent case? A retiiM. u soldier who, since his the ? has 10,3 t both his legs below trvinp- I , 6 **' hat ' been for several years * °btain a pension. My assoas iQ?- t K° i * his case us far back fe-e "ifr bUt s P ite °t our efforts we >- e hvf to this year unsuccessful, but ar 0 n l ° t * ost hope. A few months to o»r»° u er soldier added his weight this soldier is himself suffertKserious disability, and I am man f nan Pleased to state that the »oikin! r k Whom wo have both been toanent* JS? now been granted a pertHudn fU 1 P en sion and it has been «tate t^ e V ros P ecti ve to 1925. 1 may 4 tisr r« at t J le disabled soldier, who is CS’ k ha,i to crawl on hands and tne st airs and along the pastiona 1 a app f ar before the War l»ens Appeal Board. 6»H*u th * t sreat man, the late order said in , h ,'» famous w*n jf h . our bacKS to the onr ’^ and believing the justice of th*: ZX?’ we must fight on to Sng t,? pp PPy Day trustees are hoplight work on the kook* , ar Memorial Library . * *hey will only have a few *e ara even with a subsidy which C °upci> xTru-F to get from the City till* ? lch has helped before for lcng.’’ Ject * th * work will not last