HOME AGAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 December 1942, Page 3

HOME AGAIN

NEW ZEALAND SOLDIERS. 400 SICK AND WOUNDED. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The feelings of many of the 400 men ' of the 2nd N.Z.E.F. who recently returned sick and wounded to New Zealand were aptly expressed by the chairman of the Wellington Harbour Board, Mr W. H. Price, at the informal welcome given, when he said he •believed that glad though they were to be home they would love to be back in the Middle -East' to assist in the final exodus of Rommel’s army. Approximately 60 of the mon had also served in the Great War, among them an Englishman, now only 42, who, as a trumptcr in a Canadian unit in the last war,-had his 14th birthday in camp. The Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, told the men of the difficulty Parliamentarians had had to secure pensions 10 to 15 years after the last war for. returned soldiers whose war disabilities records were inadequate. He asked the returned men of this war to bear that in' mind, and to carry out the instructions given to ensure their cases being properly and fully recorded. The Government and the people wanted to ensure that the best possible was done for the returned servicemen' who had done their best for their country. If the men assisted now in having their cases fully recorded they could return to their homes with the knowledge that they would be looked after in the future.