"A PERFECT SCANDAL"
GOVERNMENT SHOULD .BE TAKEN BY THE NECK. Duncdin, April W. There was passionate discussion at the patriotic executive meeting to-day over the Government's methods of dealing with soldiers' interests, also relating to medical examinations, the lack of financial provision for men located at camp, and distribution of .patriotic contributions for the supply of comforts to soldiers overseas. One case was cited in which a home missionary had been rejected in camp for hernia and discharged. He underwent an operation costing him about £35, to nay which he had to sell his furniture, the Government absolutely refusing to recognise any reFponsibility. Special reference was made to the fact that the Government held £OOOO contributed for the supply of comforts, and could not ( . or would not, explain why the money had not been sent away, and refused to return it. Attention was also drawn to the system of placing returned soldiers on the land, irrespective of their knowledge or circumstances, thus inevitably courting failure. The position was generally described as a perfect scandal,, and one speaker said what was required was the force of public opinion to take the Government by the neck.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 April 1917, Page 3
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