SOLDIERS PENSIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 132, 5 June 1923, Page 11

SOLDIERS PENSIONS.

j TEE NEURASTHENIA CASES. I "SI'OIU-MJ .\ SI'LivXUIU KKCOKD." * 1 (By Telesrni|>li rres< Aesm-intiu.D CIIKISTCin'RCH. Monday. T]t MCCUtivi- ..f the Christeliureli I P»tnri'P'l Soldier* , Association has issued I f,; t( . m cW in r,ply to tljo recent S taleI ,phi uv tin- Minister of Detence on the I ' lliit'i't "' war p°" :i ' or,s: Thr axsociaI linii unwavering in it* <talompnt that I r el«n.«l nMicrs ; ,ro not heing given th, I Uettt of the ilouM a< Car as medical I treatment and pention. «ro nmemwd. 8 ,,,1 it h prepared to prove thta i-on--1 tuition before any Parliamentary comI m j, too of inquiry or independi-nt triliu--1 n ,il which may he appointed. I -p] R . statement concludes: "It is only I rwratlv i ha' ''x , Director-General of I Seal Serviw*. Sir Donald MacGavin. ' I iai> 'iff" npp°'» lel, lls Illc>nll ' el " ot t,l( ' I Pensions Board, and since his appoint--3 J en t the polir\ of the B<iard has not. I linen completely the same with regard to ' I its treatment of neurasthenic eases. The I o | i( . v noW adopted is that pertain cases i i '• neurasthenia shall lie given treatment I Queen Mary's Hospital and Hanmer I J rin"- After their second discharge from Hanmer they will be given a small I .en=ion for six months, after which the I .enroll will (/ease, and should they suhI Lucntly break down again the departI ment will refuse any further rttponaiUlitv for them. The ChristcWrch I Returned Soldiers" Association mainI tain« that no matter how many times a I mnn may break down in health as the J rM ult of his war service he should be 1 iriven medical treatment and a pension. I It is not desired that this statement I fhould be interpreted as an attack on the Government, because of it* of returned soldiers generally I he ChristI ..lmrcli Returned Soldiers' Association is always applauded the Government for it= generous treatment of returned !° cn , but it claims that with regard to medical treatment of returned soldiers who are breaking down in health to-day the policy of the Government is not heinK carried out by the head of the medical branrh of the Pensions Department, and this neglect is spoiling ail Otherwise splendid repatriation record.