DISABLED SOLDIERS

Camp News, Volume 3, Issue 131, 17 July 1942, Page 5

DISABLED SOLDIERS

Arrangement For Training In Wellington REHABILITATION WORK A factory for training and employing disabled servicemen is to be built on a site .in . Brougham Street, . Wellington. The Disabled Servicemen’s Re-establish-, ment League and the Amputees’ Association are favourably disposed toward the proposal. The building will probably cost between £12,000 and £15,000, and the ■ Commissioner of Defence Works, Mr. Fletcher, has agreed to give priority to its erection. This, information was submitted to a meeting of the Rehabilitation Council this week by the chairman of the Rehabilitation Board, Mr. M. Moohan, to-

gether with a summary of the board’s discussions and decisions at eight meetings during the past two months. It was stated that following recommendations by the Rehabilitation Board, arrangements ahd been concluded between the State Advances Corporation and the New Zealand Law Society for a reduction in conveyancing charges for work undertaken in connexion with loans granted to ex-service-men. The corporation had also agreed to establish at its branch offices a property register in order that owners may place their houses or farms before ex-servicemen without intervention by land agents. Consideration has been given to the question of providing houses at a reasonable cost and Mr. Moohan recently arranged for a model house to be built in Wellington. * / The 'board has for some time been concerned about the present price of furniture, and the question of manufacturers being able to produce sufficient quantity to meet demand when servicemen return after .the war. At Mr. Moohan’s request,, Mr. D. I. McDonald, secretary of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation, convened a meeting consisting of 14 representatives of furniture manufacturers from all parts of the Dominion. The manufacturers assured the board that they would cooperate in endeavouring to overcome the difficulties, and have set up a subcommittee to consider details of a proposed scheme. Messrs. Pascoe and Jackson, of the Industries and Commerce Department, met the board recently and discussed development of industry in the post-war period. Mr. Pascoe expressed the opinion that there was considerable scope for the development of iron, steel, sugar-beet and fish canning..