SOLDIERS' GRATUITIES.
THE PAYMENT N AUSTRALIA. Received Nov. 22, 12.25 a.m. Melbourne, Nov. 21. Mr. W. M. Hughes announced that the banks have agreed to find six millions in cash as payment for the wai gratuity for soldiers' widows and dependents and incapacitated or blinded soldiers and other necessitous cases. A meeting of employers decided to cash the gratuity bonds on behalf of employers or their dependents, such employers to be relieved pro tanto of contributions to further war loans. A board is to be appointed to deal with urgent eases in connection with the eratuity,~Aus,-K.Z« QM% Ass%
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1919, Page 5
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98SOLDIERS' GRATUITIES. Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1919, Page 5
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