REPATRIATION OF SOLDIERS.
- -^ BRIGADIER-GENERAL RICHARDSON'S VIEWS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The question of repatriation was discussed to-day by Brigadier-General C. S. P. Richardson, who arrived by the Remuera. He said the whole country should unite in putting the men back into their old positions, just as it did to send them away to fight. The men did not want to be spoon-fed, nor did they require anything to which they were not entitled; but it was essential that they should be provided with the necessary opportunities to citizenship—they must have them. Before he left England he held a meeting of 200 permanently disabled men, and he was deeply impressed at the keen interest they displayed in their future careers. Apparently their one desire was that they should be afforded opportunities is New Zealand to take up work suitable to their physical condition. The seriousness of the problem facing the country would bo appreciated when it was realised that we had been sending men away for four and a half years, and we were now required, as a duty, to restore them | to their former status in as many months. ' j
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 May 1919, Page 5
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192REPATRIATION OF SOLDIERS. Taranaki Daily News, 6 May 1919, Page 5
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