NEEDS OF SOLDIERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 January 1940, Page 7

NEEDS OF SOLDIERS

si GOVERNMENT’S POLICY I j FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE BOARD. OBLIGATIONS OF MEN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. An announcement that, in continuation of the policy of providing as fully as possible for the needs of the mem- ■ bers of N'ew Zealand’s Second Expeditionary Force, a Soldiers’ Financial Assistance Board had been set up was made by the Minister of Finance, Mr ' Nash, last night. The board will deal with applica- • tions which may be received from ! soldiers who proceed overseas and who ' may be in need of financial assistance to meet obligations for which their military pay is inadequate. The board will, it is proposed, utilise the organisation of the State Advances Office and will comprise:— The Secretary to the Treasury; either one of the joint managing directors, State Advances Corporation (chairman); Mr Barclay, M.P. Whangarei; Mr D. Barnes, Timaru; Mr Combs, M.P., Wellington; Mr Macdonald, M.P., Mataura; Mr Ernest W. Hunt. Wellington. It is intended that assistance shall be afforded where reasonably necessary to enable any member of the New Zealand Forces while overseas to meet the following obligations:— (a) Rent. (b) Interest payable in respect of loans or mortgages or in respect ol agreements for the purchase of a dwelling-house or business premises. (c) Interest and Instalments payable in respect of agreements for the purchase of furniture or other chattels. (d) Rates and taxes. (e) Insurance premiums. (f) Other necessary or reasonable expenses, not being expenses incurred in the purchase of property. The assistance will be by way of periodic grants or lump sums, but in no case is assistance to exceed £156 in any one year. Arrangements are in hand for the early preparation and circulation to all post offices and branches of the State Advances Corporation of the. requisite forms for completion by or on behalf of soldiers who may be concerned.