CASE OF HARDSHIP
TAX ON SOLDIER'S WIDOW. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch?"July 17. It was stated at a "meeting of the lienatriation Board that a case of hardship had arisen in connection with the widow of .a soldier who desired to return \U> England, to join her relatives, and who had asked the board to. pay the .£lO fax imposed by the Imperial Government on women entering the British Isles. The Sustenance. Committee recommended that tho Ministerial Board be asked, to take stops to urge tho Imperial authorities to remove the fax in tho case of soldiers' widows Tetvvrnini; to tcMAvos in the British Isles. Several members, while considering that the Imperial tax was not an equitable one in respect to soldiers' widowe, remarked that it was beyond the power of the board.to take action in the direction of making a grant to cover the tax.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 252, 18 July 1919, Page 5
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145CASE OF HARDSHIP Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 252, 18 July 1919, Page 5
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