Fiji Prepares For Rehabilitation
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Rehabilitation
FJI is already giving some thought to the question of rehabilitation of servicemen and for this purpose an organisation has recently been set up.
The responsibility for all matters con nected with demobilisation and rehabili tation will rest with the Commissioner for Reconstruction, Mr. A. L. Armstrong- He will be assisted by* a Rehabilitation Officer —at present Mr. H Cooper—and an Assistant Rehabilitation Officer, Lieutenant A. H. Mason, Adjutant of the Home Guard. Possibly at a later stage a Settlement Officer will be appointed.
His job will be to supervise soldier land settlement.
A Demobilisation Section will soon be established by the Fiji Military Forces.
Discharged members of the Forces who have neither homes nor jobs will then remain in uniform until the Rehabilita tion Officer *is ready to place them in civil life. Men awaiting settlement on the land or employment in a trade also will be held until the Rehabilitation Offi cer gives the signal for their discharge.
Accommodation will be provided by this authority for men still serving with active units of the Forces but who are given leave in which to train in a chosen craft- The Demobilisation Section headquarters will be in Suva.