New Zealand
■ I. SOLDIERS' PENSIONS. HrviKi t , k _ ■ r > Dunedin, Yesterday. The Hon. James Allen met the committee of the Patriotic Association today. He said he bad replied before to the statement that legislation for pensions was not liberal enough, but would say as a general proposition it was the duty of the Government to make proper provisions for the widows and children of men killed at the front or who died from disease contracted ' at the front. The -Minister of Defence had power, in addition to a pension, to pay a lump sum down or a full year's pay, and further to pay every child a third of a full year's pay. He did not say that the sums provided were sufficient, but he could not say more till he bad consulted his coleagues than that it was the Government's busineas to make adequate provision.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19150128.2.35.3
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 197, 28 January 1915, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
146New Zealand Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 197, 28 January 1915, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in