SICK AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS
A CONFLICT OP AUTHORITY. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, March 9. -For sime time past friction has existed between the Minister of Defence and the Minister of Public Health in connection with the care of sick and wounded soldiers. Cabinet has now decided that the Defence Department must be the dominant authority until the soldier is discharged. This involves the control by the Defence Department of all institutions of returned sick and wounded soldiersThe Hon. G. W. Russell, in a statement, expresses very great regret at the change, which be emphasises is not due to any lack of eflicieney on the part of the administration of his department.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 March 1918, Page 4
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