RETURNED SOLDIERS' ASSOCIATION.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 May 1919, Page 5

RETURNED SOLDIERS' ASSOCIATION.

YESTERDAY'S DISCUSSIONS. pjr Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, May 30. At the Returned Soldiers' Conference this morning the executive remit regarding pensions was earned, also a remit from H&wera that the Cabinet be requested to direct the Pensions Board to apply the doctrine of pre-war disability only after a careful review of the whole circumstances in each case.

A Dannevirke remit, that no soldier's pension he reduced without his having first appeared before a medical officer, and the Hamilton remit, that the minimuiri pension be £3 15s weekly were carried. A motion by Mr. Long (Auckland) that when the application of a returned soldier is refused by the Pensions Board he shall be allowed to appeal again&t the decision with a representative of the R.S.A. to conduct his appeal was carried.

It was decided that the Government be approached to form a Pensions Appeal Board, also to affirm that the Pensions Act shoud be ftmended to provide pensions being i payable either in case of death or disablement at any time after discharge, where the death or disablement was the result of war service.

'The conference discussed proposals affirming the principle of paying a totally disabled man his pre-war -inedme, and referred the question to the incoming executive to obtain the evidence of economist!;.

The conference resolved to acknowledge letters from the United Federation of Labor and Canterbury Industrial Association expressing good wishes and proffering help.