HELP FOR THE SOLDIER
GOVERNMENT'S ACTION. Cabinet came to a decision on Saturday concerning certain proposals for the financial assistance of soldiers going to the war leaving behind them certain _finanoial_ obligations. The Acting-Prime Minister said on Saturday that the relief would cover such financial obligations as rent, insurance, mortgage interest, and that the scheme was generally after the plan adopted in England. There the limit, of such assistance was £2 per week, this being in addition to ordinary separation, allowances. The decision will probably be confirmed at a meeting of the Executive on Tuesday next, by tho approval of the regulations to give effect to it. • Mr. Allan said, also, that Cabinet had considered the problems involved in. the "national efficiency" ideal, and had met the position very fairl.Yi he thought. The scheme was one of • great difficulty and magnitude, however, and it could not he by any means a complete fact at once. Indeed, lie had not asltcd Cabinet to agree to it all at once. Some progress had been made with it.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2977, 15 January 1917, Page 4
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175HELP FOR THE SOLDIER Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2977, 15 January 1917, Page 4
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