SOLDIERS’ PENSIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 September 1921, Page 6

SOLDIERS’ PENSIONS.

DEPUTATION TO MEMBERS

•‘A VERY GOOD CASE.” By Telegraph—Press Association. # Wellington, Sept. 28. A deputation from ex-service men and the New Zealand R.S.A. waited on members of Parliament and placed before them the association’s proposals for increasing the pensions o-f all men suffering from. 50 per cent, or greater disability and to dependents. General Russell, president, briefly outlined the objects, and reminded members of the intention underlying the War Pensions Act, as outlined by Sir James Allen in the House in 1-917, when he used the following words:—“What we have attempted to do is to consider the working man in receipt of good wages and, under our pension scheme, to provide that he shall be, if he has a wife and children, in most instances better off under the pension than he was when he was earning his daily wage.”

General Russell reminded members that the men for whom he was speaking were those who, through disability, were unable to take advantage of the soldier settlement and repatriation benefits.

Messrs. McDonald, Leadley, Long and Smith, members of the executive, went into details as outlined at the conference, and members of Parliament thanked them for the dear exposition of a very good case.