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Taranaki Daily News, 4 November 1918, Page 7

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AFTER-WAR PROBLEMS. URGENCY OP NATIONAL j}EAI*TH. FOSTERING BASIC £SDUSt|p$ t " ... Receive'd Nov. fa;rt}£':pML v :i.T " 'liOßfdon/iNov.i.M I Sir Auckland Geddes-'ntMifastorfrtJiili'' tional Service), -in l sto speech l '' at,-;4i luncheon given by .tho Federations-of Britf isli said' tE6 moat- urgei# problem after tho war was , natioos.l health. There was nothing more appalthan the results of the irjiUturv service medical examinations,irhtojidrstls of thousands of men of militatiyi age being found to be dying from preventable tuberculosis. He was not surprised at the existence of industrial unrest, and he only wondered that there had not been revolution years ago. We had taken more interest in prize pigs than in British manhood. Dr. Addison (Reconstruction Minister) said the Government's first business after the war must be t'he re-establish-ment and protection of basic industries and the liberation of raw material. Industry must be freed at the earliest possible moment. —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc;