PREFERENCE TO SOLDIERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 May 1919, Page 3

PREFERENCE TO SOLDIERS.

THE DEFENCE DEPARTMENT'S (From Our Own Correspondent) Wellington, May 13. An instruction tjiat has been issued/in the Defence Department impre&ses upon officers commanding branches that pie* ferenco in the lilling of positions is to be given to returned soldiers and that temporary clerks and home service men are to be replaced as opportunity offer* by returned members of the N.Z.EF. with similar qualifications. '' It is expected that the effect ofthis instruction, which emphasises a recommendation made previously, will' ijp to reduce substantially the number of men without active service experience <jm* ployed by the Defence Department. Stafla are being reduced as demobilise* tion progresses, and the proportion ol returned soldiers among Hie men eventually retained will be high. During the war the defence braaobes had to enlarge their staffs enormously, mid naturally they found most of their new employees among girls, women and men unfit for active service. Now the conditions have changed. The staffs ar« coming down slowly to normal proportions and there are very many thousands of returned soldier in the Dominion capable of doing the work required by the Department. The desire of the Defence authorities is that these men should have all defence positions which they are desirous and capable of filling. LIGHTNING EFFECTS. You (ret the benoflcial effect of I>r. Sheldon's New Discovery the Instant you talte (he first dose. It soothes the raw and tendor throat, and protects It from colli irerms, and clears the liend. There Is nothlne 'lke I: for nrevpittlag colds from fastening upon you It "Knock'" the germ, clears the throat, and tlo ttckle Sold everywhere .it la Cd and .Is. Obtainable everywhere. Farmers whose capital is limited, and who desire to start ilairvinL- on n of their own, should read W. XI. rn.i v McGiw'g fresh advertisement on prga Ui.