DEPENDENTS OF RESERVISTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 March 1920, Page 5

DEPENDENTS OF RESERVISTS.

FREE PASSAGES TO ENGLAND. By Teleffrnph.—Press Association. Wellington. Last Night. The War Office notifies that it has been decided that free passages to the United Kingdom may be granted to widows and orphans of Imperial reservists recalled to the colors from abroad on mobilisation, and who have died Whilst serving during the war, subject to the following reservations:—(l) Each case to be one of proved hardship; (2) free passages only to be given to children in cases where the mother is returning to the United Kingdom, or where they are orphans; (3) when the reservist lived in a self-govern-ing colony the wife and family only to be given passages, provided the wife had emigrated within three years before her husband's death; special rases of over three years may be allowed for tropical countries; (4) applications for passages should be submitted to the War Office. Loudon, not later than March 31, 1021, for consideration, always provided that when the applications for passages are not made later than that date passages will be provided, other conditions for entitlement being fulfilled even though embarkation cannot be arranged for until later.