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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16699, 6 December 1919, Page 12

nc — M WasK iSS\ roc ' ts Kiddies More and more people are learning that this is the store for thrifty^ folk, where dependability and quality \ go hand in hand. You'll find us vet; ' helpful in supplying anything to wen and use as well as in choosing Christmas Gifts. Now, more than ever, you'll find Gills lower-than-the-city count. CHECK PRINTS WHITE CREPE from 4/11 FROCKS 12/1 COLOREDCREPES A' I from 6'll tV* I COLORED CREPE X&fik I frota 4/11 I GILLS LTD. JT B OF SYDENHAM L \ C ""

A number of superannuated railway servants waited on tho Prime Minister |.Tsterday -with a request that n, Pt't;manent war bonus should be added to their pensions, and that they Fhould lie brought under the scope of tlio Coinmission set up to go into the matter of re-classification, etc. One member of tho" deputation said that liis pension of JCl&f per vear had dwindled in value, awing to tho fall in the purchasing power of the sovereign, to £1)2, and he showed that, even if a war bonus of 3s, whicU was naked for, were granted, ho would still bo running into debt, if living only rensonabl}-, to tho extent of about £l<s per year. Mr G. Witty, M.P., and Mr L. SI. Isitt, M.P., also frpeko on behalf of the superannuated nisn ; and Mr Massey, after expressing his sympathy with the men in their present position, promised to endeavour to havo them brought under tho roopo of tlio Commission as requested.

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