£7OO FOR SOLDIER
ARREARS OF PENSION SEVEN YEARS IN ASYLUM Press Association DUNEDIN, Wednesday. The claim of a returned soldier, Mr. E. J. Anderson, for £7OO, a sum representing the pension money due to him at the rate of £2 a week for seven and a-half years, has at last been honoured by the War Pensions Board. As the result of a war disability Mr. Anderson had to remain in a mental institution for over seven years. When he was at last discharged, he made his application for a lump sum covering the pension that should have been paid him during that time, but this was refused by the board. The board finally agreed to pay “arrears in pension” at the rate of £2 a week, but Mr. Anderson wanted something more definite. Acting on the advice of the Dunedin executive, he took the necessary steps to obtain a writ of mandamus directing the board formally to assess the amount due and pay it to him. Representatives of the association met the Minister of Pensions, the Hon. T. M. Wilford, who at once secured the opinion of the Crown Law Office. The opinion of the AttorneyGeneral was apparently in agreement with that of the association.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 652, 2 May 1929, Page 9
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205£700 FOR SOLDIER Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 652, 2 May 1929, Page 9
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