‘BURNT-OUT’ SOLDIERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 June 1939, Page 6

‘BURNT-OUT’ SOLDIERS

WORK OF RE=ESTABLISHMENT LEAGUE SPACE TAKEN AT EXHIBITION. NEED OF VETERANS’ HOME. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Soldiers’ Civil Re-establishment League, in view of the fact that the number of men needing assistance in employment is increasing with the years, proposes to create public interest by additional activities during, the Centennial celebrations. The League has taken 500 feet of space at the exhibition and goods are being purchased throughout the Dominion from disabled soldiers for sale. This was mentioned in the report to the annual Dominion conference of the league today. The chairman, Mr J. I. Goldsmith, said that each year more returned soldiers were breaking down in health —men who found the strain of the war years taking its toll and forcing them to give up regular employment. It appeared to him that the work of the league would increase rather than decrease for some years to come. Mr Goldsmith also referred regretfully to the fact that it had not yet proved possible to establish a farm colony for disabled soldiers, but it was increasingly evident that either a veterans’ home or a farm colony scheme would have to be provided in the near future for “burnt-out” ex-soldiers. The meeting adopted the report and statement of accounts.