PENSIONS FOR SOLDIERS
AN INCREASE DEMANDED. The greatest problem the country will haw to tackle in- the future is that o£ an increased pension rate, said Dr. E Boxer, president of the N.Z.h.b.A., in the course of his presidential address to the annual conference .yesterday. It we can push that thing through-and I hope vou will do it. for a 1 you are worth-wo will do an incalculably good thing for the pensioners. I am convinced that £2 a week is not a living wage, is not a moderate pension, and does not fill tho bill." Dr. Boxer said the general indications ho had personally received from members of Parliament were that they recognised that .£2 was not enough for a totally incapacitated man to live on. He believed that the country would be behind their demands, and that Parliament would be forced by public opinion to make such monetary provision that it would ba possible to increase pensions on an allround basis. He hoped that that demand would go through with no uncertain voice.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 211, 1 June 1920, Page 4
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175PENSIONS FOR SOLDIERS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 211, 1 June 1920, Page 4
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