WIVES OF EARLY VOLUNTEERS
CLAIM TO 'THE INCREASED ALLOWANCES. By Telegraph—Press Association. Napier, December 4. The president of the New. Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association, Mr. C. W. Batten, commenting on (he rejection of the claim for the wives of early volunteere to receive the same allowances as Second Division reservists, says: "The Returned Soldiers' Association cannot accept the reason given by Mr. Massey, who , states that this ]U6t claim is repudiated because of ( the huge sum required for repatriation purposes. Two million five hundred thousand pounds is provided for this work, and practically the whole of this sum is to be be repaid by returned soldiers. Is ,£2,500,000 advanced on loau • at current rates to returned soldiers a , 'huge sum' when compared with the £1,000,000 given as a war bonus to Civil Servants?" ,
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 60, 5 December 1918, Page 4
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133WIVES OF EARLY VOLUNTEERS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 60, 5 December 1918, Page 4
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