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1930. NEW ZEALAND.

EX-SOLDIERS REHABILITATION COMMISSION. REPORT OF COMMISSION APPOINTED TO INQUIRE INTO AND REPORT UPON THE POSITION OF PHYSICALLY AND ECONOMICALLY INCAPACITATED SOLDIERS.

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency.

COMMISSION TO INQUIRE INTO AND REPORT UPON THE POSITION OF PHYSICALLY AND ECONOMICALLY INCAPACITATED SOLDIERS. Charles Fergusson, Governor-General. To all to whom these presents shall come, and to John Saxon Barton, Esquire, of Wellington, Stipendiary Magistrate ; Sir John Pearce Luke. Knight, of Wellington, Engineer ; and Sidney John Harrison, Esquire, of Wellington, Secretary : Greeting. Whereas it is expedient that inquiry should be made into the condition and circumstances of persons being now residents of the Dominion, whether men or women, who were engaged in military, naval, or air service in the late war, the South African Campaign, or the Maori War, whether beyond New Zealand or not, and whether in the New Zealand Forces or in the service of the Crown in any part of the British Empire, and who at the present time are not in a position adequately to maintain themselves and their dependants, and into the adequacy of the present provision existing to meet the requirements of such persons as aforesaid, and into the necessity or expediency of making further statutory provision in the premises : Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby constitute and appoint you, the said John Saxon Barton, John Pearce Luke, and Sidney John Harrison, to be a Commission to inquire into and report upon the following matters : —■ 1. The present condition and circumstances of such persons as aforesaid, their approximate number, and the nature of their disabilities ; 2. The adequacy of the sources at present available and the sufficiency of the methods employed for the alleviation of the condition of such persons as aforesaid, whether by pension from the Crown, by allowances from funds created or available for the purpose, by existing statutory facilities for land-settlement, establishment in business, financial assistance, special training and treatment, and otherwise;

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