The Chronicle. PUBLISH DAILY LEVIN. MONDAY, JULY 21, 1913. SOLDIERS' REWARDS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 July 1913, Page 2

The Chronicle. P UBLISH DAILY LEVIN. MONDAY, JULY 21, 1913. SOLDIERS' REWARDS.

Some cynic who never had fought in his life caustically wrote that "an old soldier is an old growler." Some old soldiers may be, but when they are they generally can adduce good reasons for their characteristic. For it has been the lot of the soldier, from time immemorial, to receive profuse thanks in the time of battle and a niggardly pension when he has dropped out of the (ightnig strength. We note ihat in sew Zealand the veteran soldiers who fought to maintain this country from savage dominance are having their cause championed in Parliament by Mr Mandcr, M.l'., who has asked the Minister m Charge of the Pensions .Department whether he will amend the Military Pensions Act., so as to place the veterans of New Zealand on tlie same footing as Imperial pensioners. The question put by the member for Marsdeii constituency has evoked an interesting and informative reply from me Minister (Hon. Air Pis her), whose reply runs: "The suggest Km to place veterans of Mew Zealand on thu same footing as Imperial pensioners is no doubt with a \iu\v to removing the restrictions relating to income, property, and residence in Mew Zealand. The conditions attached to the granting of tlie military pension in Mew Zealand are much nioie favourable than those appertaining to the payment oi an Imperial military pension, as the following extracts from the. Imperial Regulations will show: Extract from 'Royal Warrant for the Pay, Appointment, .Promotion, and Moneilective Pay of the Arinv, Year LOU'J. Paragraph lim' Special campaign pensions may be granted to discharged European soldiers who enlisted into Our Regular i'orccs for the ordinary term of service, under the following conditions: (a) The recipient must have received a war-medal; (h) he must have attained the age ol' sixtylive years; (r) if already in receipt of a pension in respect of his war service, he must surrender such pension ; and (d) his weekly income, apart from Army pension, must not exceed I.~s. The daily rates of pension shall be determined accord- • ing to the following scale: • Daily rate of pension, weekly income not exceeding 8s; under fourteen years' service, \)[\: fo.urteen years' service and under sixteen years' service, lUd : sixteen years' service and upwards, Is. Daily rate of pension, weekly income not exceeding Us: under fourteen years' service, 7<|: fourteen years' service and under sixteen years' service, 8d ; sixteen years' service and upwards, l()d. Daily rate of pension, weekly income i not exceeding-1 Us: under fourtoon years' service, (id: fourteen years' service and under sixteen ■ years" service, 7<!: sixteen years ( service and upwards, !)d. Daily < rate of pension, weekly income < not exceeding 11s: under four- < teen years' service, 4d; fourloen t years' service and under sixteen ; years' service, "nl; sixteen years' ( service and upwards, Td. Daily < rate of pension, weekly income not exceeding ]2s: fourteen t ! years' service and under six- c teen. yours'_ service, 2d ; fourteen ]: years' service and under six teen a years' service, 3d : sixteen years' service and upwards, Od. A o campaign pensioner who is not f< given a pension under the Old- 1jiffc Pensions Act, 1908, and is g in receipt of less than Is a day si ——~"~ " ' .. "-"-"- v_ . -. e i AFTER OTHEIf.S FAILED. "I use Chamberlain's Pain Is.alin k i'or a sore throat and have' always tl found onerubbing to cure it, , ' writ«K a Mr T. Dennis. Hihitaki, N.Z. "It h worked wonders when 1 sprained my l> ankle, giving me immediate reliei o: from pain after other InvTments had ii failed. I also rccoinmencl Chamber- tl lain's P«in Balm for rheumatism, ii k having relieved niw many times." so For sale everywhere. Advt. si

campaign pension, may be granted an increase up to that rale, at or after the age of seventy, if his means, exclusive of the pension, do not exceed 5s a week. If his means exceed 5s but do not exceed (is a week, his campaign pension may be increased to lid a day. Paragraph 1108. Every soldier who (a) is found guilty by a com imartial of desertion, fraudulent enlistment, or any offence under section 1T or I<S of the Army Act; (b) is liable to trial on confession of desertion, or fraudulent enlistment ; but whose trial has been dispensed with: (e) is discharged with .ignominy, or as incorrigible and worthless, or expressly on account of misconduct, or on conviction by the civil power, or on beiny sentenced to penal servitude, or for giving a false answer on attestation ; (d) is found μ-uilty by a civil court of an oil'ence which if tried by court-martial, would be cognizable under section IT or IS of the Army Act: or is sentenced by a civil court to a punishment exceeding six months' imprisonment: shall forfeit all medals and decorations (o'hei- than jjie Victoria Cross, which is dealt with under special regulations) of which he may be in possession, or to which he may be entitled, to-μ-ethei, with llie annuity or .yratuily (if any) thereto appertaining. Paragraph IISJJ--An annuitant who, after discharge from our Army, is found guilty of any of the offences, or is sentenced to the punishment, referred to in Article 11 ">S (d) shall forfeit his annuity.' "