WAR ALLOWANCES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 281, 26 November 1937, Page 6

WAR ALLOWANCES.

I agree with "Ex-10/2212" that men an sustenance are better off than returned men under the War Veterans' Allowances Act. Like "Ex-10/2212," I receive this allowance for myself, wife and nine children. My wife and children receive £7 11/8 per month and £4 6/8 per month for myself. I am also granted 10/ per weelc sustenance, making in all £3 10/ per week for self, wife and family. I have been informed bv tlie authorities that should 1 earn anything the equivalent will he deducted from my sustenance. Prior to the Government realising: that returned men and their families have no right to he above the daisies, I was getting £3 6/6 per week and allowed to earn another 12/ per week; on top of this my wife received 12/ per week family allowance. Men on relief in my position still receive the same. Why not us returned front-liners? The present generation are not the fools that we "Diggers" were, and won't be taken in by empty promises. If the Minister of Defence, instead of talking of the wonderful treatment the returned men receive, fulfilled half the country's promises to us. then perhaps his defence scheme would realise his expectations. We will be going "over the top" again next year, and will know what to do. SEVEN"-BAR.