SUSTENANCE ALLOWANCE TO LIMBLESS MEN.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 20, 30 July 1920, Page 14

SUSTENANCE ALLOWANCE TO LIMBLESS MEN.

Instructions have been issued by the Defence Department that the sustenance allowance to limbless men wliile attending an artificial limb factory, or workshop for repair or supply of an artificial limb, will be increased from 5s to 7s 6d a day as froir 1st August, 1920. This allowance will not be payable to limbless men when their attendance at the factory does not necessitate their absence from home, but is granted in lieu of accommodation in hospital, and the D.G.M.S. may instruct that a limbless m&n is required to reside in hospital during his period of attendance, in which ca-e the allowance will not be payable. In addition, the Pensions Department may on application, grant to a limbless man, attending as above stated, a supplementary pension during the period of attendance, which together with the allowance of 7s 6d a day, would amount to an aggregate grant of approximately 10s a day