NONE UNEMPLOYED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 June 1941, Page 5

NONE UNEMPLOYED

RETURNED SOLDIERS OF PRESENT WAR. STATEMENT BY MR NASH. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. A denial that soldiers who have returned from the present war were unemployed in Auckland was given by the Acting-Prime Minister Mr Nash, in reply to a question by Mr Lee (Democratic, Labour, Grey Lynn) in the House of Representatives yesterday. Mr Lee called attention to advertisements for work for five returned men. “The procedure in connection with returned men sets out that every service man whose medical condition permits is interviewed by the Repatriation Division of the National Service Department and efforts are made, even while the man is still on leave, to arrange for reinstatement in pre-war employment or placement in other suitable work,” Mr Nash replied. Contact was then maintained for a minimum period of 10 weeks in order to ensure that the work was proving suitable. As far as could be found on inquiry into the five Auckland cases, at least three were not returned soldiers of the present, war. With one exception all the fit returned soldiers of this war in the Auckland office were in employment. The exception was a mail’ who had lost part of his arm in a bomb explosion, and he was to begin work on June 16. The answer was that there was none unemployed who could be employed.