RETURNED SOLDIERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1919, Page 4

RETURNED SOLDIERS.

THE HOUSING PROBLEM. PERMANENT PENSIONS. By Telegraph-Press Associate. Wellington, Last Nighf The question of pwibion of houalag aooommodat.on for returning 80 ldl«£ as discussed by the War Relief aZ. em .on to-day and a resolution p*M. Ed hat owing to the shortage of hoMt* in tlie large towns of New Zetland Wle Government at onoc proceed to eHct houses m the principal centres, and th»t the houses when built, should be sold to the soldiers on easy terms Another resolution urges the Government to remove the limitation placed on amounts advanced by advances to settlers and the advances to seltlSM department in order that the soldiers mav be enabled to acquire houses for themselves under iho provisions of the Act. The Relief Association re=olutioned that a* the rights of soldiers' wives and children are recognised when a pension is made permanent, and as it is impossible for anv man who has a wife and children to live on 30s a week the Government be again urged that where a provisional pension certlflcato is issued to ii married soldier a similar provisional certificate should be made for hi? wife and children.