DESTITUTE EXSOLDIERS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 1 April 1926, Page 6

DESTITUTE EXSOLDIERS.

STARVING IN IRELAND. By Telegraph*—Press Association. WELLINGTON, March 31. The War Rebel Association lias received a letter from the Duke of Northumberland, chairman of the Southern Irish Loyalists Relief Association, ‘asking if help could be given to many dcserving cases among ex-service meir in the South of Ireland, whose condition, was deplorable. These men had only i an average of 6s 6d per week to- live on, and liow they existed at all -was a mystery. Funds had been raised, bub were now exhausted, and the sufferers were starving. . The letter suggested that they were the type of men who would make good colonists and farm workers, and asked if money could be collected either to relieve them or assist them to emiS With the letter Were extracts ■ from letters giving a heart-breaking picture of the conditions, and stating th at exservice men could find no work as,Na : tionalists received preference. , Members of the Association agreed that the conditions described were pitiable to the last degree, and "decided, to take charge of any money subscribed for the purpose of assisting emigration, but the Association’s °wn funds could not lie devoted to tho purpose. Copies of the letter will be sent to , other Associations, ■