RETURNED SOLDIERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 August 1941, Page 6

RETURNED SOLDIERS

COST OF HOSPITAL TREATMENT. I DEFENCE MINISTER'S VIEW. At a meeting of the Masterton Patriotic Committee held last night a letter was received from the Minister ot Defence, Mr Jones, acknowledging receipt of a copy of a resolution carried by Wairarapa borough and county representatives urging "that the Government be asked to carry out the undertaking given that hospitalisation of soldiers be provided free by the State. He emphasised that hospitalisation and after-care of sick and wounded soldieis would not impose any expense on any soldier personally. Mr Jones enclosed a copy of a letter he had sent to Mr T. Jordan, as president of the New Zealand Municipal Association, in reply to the association's representations that the-full cost of hospital treatment of sick and wounded soldiers should be a charge on the War Expenses Account. His view then that the payment of Ils a day by the Government was reasonable anil would not be increased was still his considered view. The chairman, Mr T. Jordan, said that the matter would be again considered at a conference to be held in Wellington shortly;