RETURNED SOLDIERS' ASSOCIATION.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 39, 10 December 1920, Page 5

RETURNED SOLDIERS' ASSOCIATION.

PRIVILEGE RAILWAY TICKETS. The following has been received and is published for general information : — Arraiigements have now been completed with the Railway Department, whereby the period of availability for' fom" week's privilege rail tickets is extended to 28th February, 1921, in lieu of 30th instant as previously fixed, and telegraphic advices accordingly have been issued to all Group and Area- Offices, etc. This means of course, that four weeks' tickets must, to have full availability, fce drawn on or prior to 3st January. Tickets already issued for a lesser period than 4 weeks so aS to expire on 30th Nov. ernber, will be extended to cover four Weeks from date of issue of ticket on personal application to any • railway stv tionmaster. Guards on trains are not empowered to extend these tickets.. Men who have not applied locally to Group Offices for their four weeks' ticKets by the 30th instant, will require to make application to the Officer-in-Charge, War Accounts and Records, Wellington, at'ter that date. The present provisions in regard t > men undergoing hospital treatment will ncw apply as from 28th February, viz., thoso who, owing to health, have been unable to travel, mayAiraw their tickets within ono month from date of discharge from hospital, the necessary medical certificate to support claim for ticket being issuable by the hospital medical officer, DIS CHARGED SOLDIERS : MEDICAL TREATMENT. The Defence Department will provide medical treatment for discharged soldiers who are suffering from a recurrence of lllnesses arising out of and directly by their servie,e in the forces, such as the reopening oi a wound, muscular rheumatism, neurasthenia, pneumonia, or any other ail. ment which renders them unfit to follovr their daily avocation, and also for any other disabilities for which the Direetor General of Medical Services may grant treatment, on consideration of each ia» dividual case.