WAR AIMS. The Returned Civilien. 5.

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WAR AIMS. The Returned Civilien. 5.

; « THS Board ( Rehabilitation ,) , recognises. that the successful re- ? habilitation of ex-servioemn and servicewomen depends vitally on, ; th© - post-war re c o nst xu cti on of Now . ? Zealand's economy and social life fl This r. -Quotation .is taken from ? a statement of the Rehabilitation ■' ; Bus rd and ths quotation ©mpiaslscs that the : The * ’ tt successful rehabilitation " of returned mon and woman depends on * reconstruction " of . cur economic and social life. ■ Tbit ..

? /can only njoan one of two tilings : * that w return ; to ■.&?»• Zr- of ■loa®:?l||g State terp rise ' and 'aoro Private ?t ? ■. . ,>ito sei. or to a M*Z* •.. of more State Enterprise and less Private ;•:. Enterprise, Admitting the need of « ’reconstruction wg have to

make up vur,..minds how'. wo are : going • z to carry it through, ' A further ! : quotation. from • tho statement says:- ’• * The policy of the Board is ba add >.>' ■ upon the assumption that ; a long- j ?; / term plan of reconstruction involving appropriate industrila* financial and. distributive organisation, will be initiated -by the Govt? %. K’otico • that it is ‘ the .Govt, that is doing, the plana - • ing; private enterprise; it is the a 'state Dept. that is tak-

Ing tho load* not a Chamber of • Comarca; . that tears lias boan pg I , '■ ' ■thare./hafi h.ifin no tIXA- ■ Arc we to asauna that M.Z* as a 1 whole is behind the Gevt* in this ; matter of rehabilitating raturnd > soldiers ? * With woman, so with' politics - silence gives consent* That being so, it / follows :? . we must'not start: bawling fo>. •r- ; legrs Govt, ■interfere neo, 4 for.?; ■ a SsWa to the « good old days ;• .when. a man could call Ms soul his own « and not raise the. price ~• of a feed. • How :.i s the time to

examine • any ■ ■ an 3 ths ■ Govt* .. . lias ; ■ for "reconstruction”;; it la too lata when w- return* <; Thors is : no

‘ Uss- .b«lngv.pX-tc^d': : cook & bull 'Hsias' . whan wc return;. 'inning ths superrs tit ion that ’ private enterprise ". ..10•• t■&?;.•. cnlyw : * whan private • enterprise sit a r.xi new may be - ' .. -go od'< : titles ■• for ’ 3-01^3 »■ oplo :' Pol- ■/ itical jorrywiidGring mans soma /-• one i gets away..wi th. the loot . and, 7 A.\f -•. the / M </i3uak<jr. * gcta ; the sympat.hy» ’’••

IJ a policy of State Planning is necessary, and it is the only proposal that meets all the req* uirements of the time, it has to be supported; the co-operation \ that makes our orcy a killer has | to be put behind the plan* • i