SOLDIERS' DEPENDENTS
ALLOCATIONS OF PAY. Mr. J. G. Coates (Kaipava) asked the Ministor of Defence yesterday what was being done in 'regard to the payment of allotments of pay to the ■ dependents of meii who were killed or reported missing at-,tho front. In many cases which had been brought under his notice payment had been stopped as soon as men were reported killea or missing. Yot these men had joined on the under; standing that their dependents would be. looked after, particularly the wives and children of the married men. The Minister of. Defence (the Hon. J Allen) said that a soldier's pay was stopped as soon as ho was killed, and the pay of a missing man was • also stopped, because it was not known whether he was killed or not. If a missing man was subsequently found, his accumulated pay was delivered to him. The wife and children of a man were obviously dependent on him, and the allotment he had made to them continued for twenty-six weeks, until the pension was arranged for. As for other relatives, if they were shown to be dependents, the allotment continued for twenty-six weeks, as in the former case, until the amount of pension was. decided.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2563, 10 September 1915, Page 6
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205SOLDIERS' DEPENDENTS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2563, 10 September 1915, Page 6
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