WAR PENSIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 217, 12 September 1940, Page 6

WAR PENSIONS.

Your correspondent!?. R. Style* end 'Tour Bar," have brought to notice again the unhappy anomaJv ii the War Pension* Act. " The Depart, ment refuse* men access to their medical history file*: the file fact* cannot be used a>v "blind appellants" u • further weight on appeal? and to enaMe them to moot object ion*. There i* tie strongest evidence that only Tirihte* dwability is recognised, although those things that make men sck and h<oj>lese in this economic "hattlcm-ound are fceyond scrutiny and definit-on and treatment on a proper <ha*i*. Certain ailments are onv : ou* : other* not ea«]T reco?ni?ed. It t a moet thing that an<l cmireat medical opinion (ahead of Mjcvl concluded that front liters vho held out the in the MttereA sectors are tho*e with the f=ickne*« i* tnjs latter category—those with n» 'visible-' disaWHt.r. The paradox k that those who 3,<.!d T he i.ridse the lon?<vt and escapwl the wound* hare been hardest hit in the sfirrniath. There never ha* Vcn : ,ny reading te weiph any man'- front line exposure li-HTolly hy the Department. But the inexperienced War Pewion* officials have pa-d no attention to the raan'e best evidence—the imn'* real war record. WAR PKXSIOXEH.