DISABLED EX-SOLDIERS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 207, 20 August 1929, Page 4

DISABLED EX-SOLDIERS

BRITISH TRAINING SCHEMES. SIB ANDREW RUSSELL’S INQUIRIES. Wellington, Aug. 20. During his brief visit to England, Major-General Sir Andrew Russell presided at the great conference in London of the British Empire Service League at which many problems affect ing tho u elftfre of ex-servicemen were discussed. Sir Andrew Russell returned by the Tainui yesterday and spent a few hours in Wellington before going on to Hastings. As president of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association, he called at the Dominion headquarters yesterday morning and* briefly outlined his activities in England on behalf of the association concerning which ho will submit later a full report.

While in England, Sir Andrew Russell visited tho Preston Hall settlement, where disabled soldiers, mostly T.B. eases, are engaged in light carpentry work (making dog kennels, motor garages, etc., in sections), making fibre suitcases, and other light articles. Ho also visited the Lord Roberts Memorial workshops, and the poppy-making factory, with a view to finding out details of the running of those concerns, and assisting the N.Z.R.S.A. when, and if, the commission asked for by the association of tho Minister of Defence is set up. Sir Andrew Russell brought back a considerable amount of data regarding the poppy factory, and as a result it is hoped to make Poppy Day in New Zealand a bigger movement than previously.

Sir Andrew Russell also went into questions of finance affecting ex-Im-pcrial men in New Zealand, securing information regarding tho funds controlled by the British Legion and the Empire Service League.