PENSIONS SCHEME

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3188, 12 September 1917, Page 6

PENSIONS SCHEME

retrospective amendments SOUGHT BY N.Z.R.S.A. , In connection with the amendments to tlm 'sYstem of pensions and. allowances, the general secretary of the Now Zealimd Returned Soldiers' Association states Mat the association.intended to insist vigorously upon any increases ,™ aae trospective to the outbreak;' of the warWithout criticising or cavilling at tne Second Division in insisting quate scale for their dependants befoio tlier themselves leave New Zealand, tne association wishes to insist upon tho tac tliat tho early circumstances of the_nai made it impossible for the Mam Bo y men and. early reinforcements, f 1 ™ 0 "? whom was,also a kiye numbe of ma ■ried men, to do anything else than tiust to the public of New Zealand to see justice done by them and tlieir depradMts Many thousands have been killed. I heir unhesitating response to a sense ot dutj. and their willingness to sacrifice is characteristic also of their dependants, whose troubles are endured m mlence. In tho opinion of the'association justice demands that amendments to the «- IsTing scheme 'honld not merely appl> to tfioso who are leaving New Zealand in the future, but to all the members of tho First Division upon whom has fallen the burden and heat of three years of war, and it confidently looks to tho public-of New Zealand to support tins demand.