BONUS SOUGHT FOR WAR PENSIONERS
(New Zealand Press Association) NELSON, March 9. The Government is to be requested by the War Amputees’ Association to pay a bonus ‘>to war pensioners, the bonus o be the difference between the present basic pension and the presentday equivalent. of the purchasing power of the 1917 pension. This decision was reached by the Dominion conference of the association in Nelson. The association will also ask that the 100 per cent, basic disability pension be 75 per cent, of the average adult wage. The following officers were elected: president. Colonel C. E. Butcher; vicepresident. Mr F. Thompson; committee, Messrs J. Southward (Auckland), H. G. Garratt (Wellington), E. A. Robinson (Canterbury-Westland), and F. Thompson (Otago-Southland); secretary, Mrs I. F. Land; treasurer, Mr W. M. F. Williams.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26058, 10 March 1950, Page 3
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