DISABLED SOLDIERS.
THEIR CARE IN THE FUTURE. By Telegraph.—Press Astociation. Wellington, Ltfst Night. The dispensation of permanent relief to permanently disabled returned soldiers was discussed at a meeting of the Wellington War Belief Association to-day. The chairman thought it would be advisable to hold a special meeting of the Patriotic Societies Advisory Board early in the year to discuss some scheme, preferably a Dominion scheme, for giving special aid to permanently disabled men. He mentioned as one of the difficulties in such a proposal that some permanently disabled men were earning more money than they ever earned before, and these men were not under any economic disability. Mr. Hutcheson thought it was deplorable that at this time there should be piecemeal treatment of this problem. There ought to be no such parochialism in distributing the residue of funds. There should be no regard to special circumstances of some districts, which perhaps had large funds and light claims. There should be a Dominion scheme and it should be formulated by a representative conference in which the Government should take part, and the conference should call to its aid the best expert assistance, medical and otherwise, obtainable in the country. He did not think the Patriotic Advisory Board would be the proper body to deal with this problem. Mr. Luke said it was almost inconceivable that relief should be carried on as at present for a. period of fifteen years or more, for many men would require assistance for as long a period as this. He always contemplated the time when there would be a "wash-up," and he thought ,the best method would be an amalgamation of funds, and the adoption of a scale of relief for permanently disabled men.
In further discussion it was pointed out there was machinery at present for the Government to exercise a measure of control over the funds, and that the residue of such funds as those for Red Cross purposes, would probably come into a common fund for a Scheme suggested. There was, amongst me.-nbers, considerable doubt about the willineness iof other societies to agree to the Wellington proposal, however proper it might be. Eventually it was decided that a special committee should be set up to consider all cases of permanent or semipermanent disability.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 November 1919, Page 4
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