CARE OF THE WOUNDED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 309, 8 June 1915, Page 8

CARE OF THE WOUNDED.

ARRANGEMENTS FOR TREATMENT. KOMI! TO COME HOME. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. . "The position in regard to wounded New Zealanders at the front," said the Hon. Jan. Allen to-day, "is that if men are likely to recover in time to be wanted at Gallipoli again ihey go to Malta or Egypt, and if they cannot be dealt j with there they are "sent to England J the only men who are sent to Englan/ are those -who will eventually go back ' to the front." Those who will not l.e fit to return, added the Minister, wlwn they became convalescent, were to be brought back to New Zealand. The Gov- j eminent had no definite information yet us to when they would be able to be sent back or when the men would get here. If arrangements with the existing hospitals were sufficient the Hon. R. IT. Rhodes, into whose charge this matter had been given, would select places from Ihose under offer and equip them for the earo of wounded. Every arrangement had been made by the J'nblic Health Department, said Mr. Rhodes, fn regard to the existing hospital.-", there was a good deal'of room available »t those 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 were 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 nsk that her husband be allowed to co home, so that she couid nurse him, and it was obviously the kindest and best thing to do to allow our men to go to (heir homos and be eared for. The Minister added that the bulk of J the mounted men of the main expeditionary force are fighting on the Gallipoli Peninsula as dismounted troops, and there, may be some of the second reinforcements there. The -mounted men volunteered for this service.