NO PROVISION FOR CHILDREN
Although returned service persouuel receive free travel warrants for themselves and their vvives or mothers, a war widow -is not entitled to a vvarrant for her child. This is revealed in a letter reeeived from Base Records, Wellington, by a woman whose husband was killed at E1 Alamein, and who requested a warrant for her four-year-old child. "I have to advise that you are entitled to a hrst-elass free rail pass for 28 eonsecutive days, " states the letter. "The authority of the Government defmitely limits the issue of free rail passes to widows or mothers, as the case may be, of men who have lost their. Jives, and I am sorry no exhen-: sion for the policy is permitted. Those travelling with you will have to pay their own fares." It was pointed out that a mother or wife* whose sou or husband had returned could travel with him on a warrant. On the other hand, a widow who had suffered the loss of her husband and who in addition had a family to support reeeived a single warrant, and should she wish to use it she was faced with the alternative of either paying for her child or children or not taking them with her.
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 March 1946, Page 8
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210NO PROVISION FOR CHILDREN Chronicle (Levin), 21 March 1946, Page 8
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