THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
The Hkiit of Honor. War pensions call for the greatest disbursement by the Pensions Department. If there were ally disposition to cavil at the sum the whole system costs, the obligations to the soldiers of the late war is the last one open to attack. It is a debt of honour. More than that, it is a debt which one day will bo discharged in full. Happily death is not the principal cause for the dwindling total so far as last year’s figures disclose. Children are growing lip. in some eases, probably, widows have remarried, and no doubt the slow restoration of health in others lias made the man independent again. The debt moves toward eventual discharge. Even so. an the report shows, the State still plays no inconsiderable part as almoner to those who for other reasons have proved unequal to the task of self-support. —Auekland “Herald.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1925, Page 2
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152THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1925, Page 2
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