DISABLED SOLDIERS
DEMAND FOR INCREASED PENSIONS MATTER TO BE LAID BEFORE PARLIAMENT. PRIME MINISTER’S PROMISE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, March 24. In consequence of the Prime Minister’s statement that the matter of increasing the disability pension would be considered during the next Parliamentary session, the New Zealand Returned Services Association’s Dominion Executive spent a considerable" time reviewing the question, says a report issued by the association. Discussions have been held with the War Amputees’ Association and with Second N.Z.E.F. members co-opted on the Wellington R.S.A. Committee. The report adds that it is expected that the matter will be considered by all local associations and discussed at a council meeting, next May. It recalls that a commission was set up by the Government in 1923 which agreed that the disability pension should be increased, but granted the increase by way of an economic pension, which, in effect, meant that a disabled soldier struggling along in employment obtained no benefit.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 March 1943, Page 2
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158DISABLED SOLDIERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 March 1943, Page 2
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