SOLDIERS' PENSIONS
CASE OF IMPERIAL MEN
POSITION IN DOMINION
(l>y Telegraph—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, July 12. On the occasion of the visit of the Duke of Gloucester to Invcrcargill representations were made to him through Captain Kerr on behalf of disabled Imperial ex-servicemen who were not in receipt of pensions. The facts of the case were communicated by' the ex-Imperial Soldiers' Social Club of Invercargill' to Captain Sir Arthur Curtis, private secretary to the Duke of Gloucester, and on his return to London his Royal Highness carried out his promise to place the matter before the authorities concerned. The president of the club. Mr. R. H. A. Smith, has received a letter forwarded to General Sir Howard Vyse from the British Ministry of Pensions. Summed up brifiy, the position regarding Imperial ex-servicemen in New Zealand is that arrangements are in force whereby an application in respect to disability attributed to war.service can still be considered, notwithstand-: ing the lapse of time since the termination of the war.
Preliminary investigation of such applications is carried out in New Zea-land-on behalf of the British Ministry of Pensions by the Commissioner of Pensions . at Wellington, to whom particulars must be furnished, in the first; instance. ■ .. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 12, 13 July 1935, Page 14
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201SOLDIERS' PENSIONS Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 12, 13 July 1935, Page 14
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