AMENDED REGULATIONS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9633, 13 June 1919, Page 5

AMENDED REGULATIONS.

WELLINGTON, June 12

By a "Gazette Extraordinary" issued to-day the Financial Assistance to Soldiers Regulations are amended in the direction of authorising the Minister of t Defence ..to pay out of the war expenses accduui to any officer, non-commissioned officer, or man who has been honourably discharged from the Expeditionary Force after service therein beyond the seas a bonus not exceeding' the. amount which might have been paid to him by' way of financial assistance under the Financial Assistance Regulations) of 1918 in respect of the period of, his" service in the Expeditionary Force (together with a period not exceeding' six months thereafter), if he had made due application therefore in accordance with those regulations prior to his discharge, save that in respect of the period prior to January 30, 1918, the maximum annual amount which will be ao paid shall be £104 and not exceed £156. No bonus will be granted except on the recommendation of,,a Military Service Board. Every application for a bonus must be made by the applicant within three mouths after his return to New' Zealand, or, in the caso of applicants who have already returned, within three months after the date of these regulations.