ECONOMIC PENSIONS.
SITTING OF COMMISSION. INQUIRY IN FIVE WEEKS. EXPECTATIONS IN AUCKLAND. It is expected by representatives of the local Returned Soldiers' Association that the commission that has been set up to inquire into the position of economic pensions in the cases of disabled exservicemen, will sit in Auckland in about five weeks' time. Meantime the association is gathering evidence in the form of statistics concerning the number of men who are likely to coiue within tho scope of tlxe inquiry,' and is paying particular attention 'to possible avenues of employment for disabled soldiers. It is the Government's desire to abolish economic pensions to partially-dis-abled soldiers, and make men now in receipt of such pensions independent members of the community. With this end in view it has set up a commission to sit in the four chief centres of the Dominion. The watchword of the com-
mission, according to an announcement made by the Minister of Defence (Hon. T. Wiliord), will bo "to find employment for those partially-disabled soldiers who arc receiving economic pensions."
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 222, 19 September 1929, Page 12
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