BASIC WAR PENSION
AMPUTEES AGAIN SEEK INCREASE (New Zealand Press Association) DUNEDIN, March 24. Since World War I successive governments in New Zealand had consistently reduced the value of the basic war pension, and today it was necessary to make special and, supplementary grants to individuals as a stop-gap and to avoid cases of glaring hardship, said an Auckland delegate, Mr T. C. Browne, at the annual conference in Dunedin today of the New Zealand War Amputees’ Association. The conference tomorrow will consider asking its Dominion executive to frame a policy seeking to relate the basic war pension either to the cost of living or a percentage of the average adult wage. Mr Browne, whose own disablement is assessed at 165 per cent., contended that for the good of the greatest number it would be better to accept a reduction in supplementary and special grants in favour of an increase in the basic pension. The remit to which Mr Browne was speaking was one submitted by the Wellington and Otago-Southland branches, reaffirming a 1953 resolution that an increase in the basic war pension was “definitely necessary.” This was carried.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27307, 25 March 1954, Page 12
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189BASIC WAR PENSION Press, Volume XC, Issue 27307, 25 March 1954, Page 12
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