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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 14252, 28 December 1946, Page 4

T OF HONOUR Pensions help repay Ip 1943 the whole question of War Pensions was reviewed and a new Act Drought in much more generous allowances for those to whom New Zealand owes so much. Before this Act the basic pension for total disablement was £2 a u eek plus 00/- economic. These were raised to £3 plus 35/A generous spirit Tnc War Pensions Board considers each application for a Pension. Of its three members one is a doctor, one is nominated by the R.S.A. and all are returned servicemen. ihcir instructions are tc g ve every applicant ‘the benefit of the noubt’, so that even when evidence is not conclusive tnat any death or disability was due to war service, the pension is usually gianted. Any dissatisfied applicant has a . ri S“ t °** a PP ea l within six months to the War Pensions Appeal Board. r. Every citizen can help t . ... w* * New Zealand does not wish to # of and women who have served her m peril. The Government b elieves country’s desire to make the moskg unquibbling allowance that its These allowances are paid from the Fund which is fed from general taxaU °*rj able this country to remain prosper 0 all its obligations, ever}' citizen ca most important way. Work stea y . ■ sj KEEP PRODUCTION