WAR PENSIONS
R.S.A. Seeks Changes In System (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 17. Mr R. Hardie Boys computed at a session of the New Zealand Returned Services’ Association conference that £7B in 1951 was the equivalent of £lO4 now. He was presenting a case for increasing the allowable margin of earnings or income with a war veteran’s allowance from £7B a vear to £lO4. “It has been £7B since 1951,” he said, “and if you take £lO4 now as being equivalent to £7B then, there is a definite case for all veterans to earn that extra 10s a week.” The conference approved the seeking of the increase. Mr H. Mitchell said that a similar case could be made out for economic pensioners. His motion that their margin of earnings or income should be increased by £2 a week, and that in future it be computed on an annual basis, was passed. The association will press for an increase in the basic war pension for orphans from £2 2s 6d a week to £2 10s.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27688, 18 June 1955, Page 9
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