RETURNED SOLDIERS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 59, 3 December 1917, Page 4

RETURNED SOLDIERS

MEETING OP THE EXECUTIVE. The executive of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association sat again in Wellington on ."Saturday. 'Mr. J. D. Harper (Wellington), actingpresident, was in the cliair, and the delegates present wore: Messrs. J. I. Fox, C. W.. Batten, and N. Broad (Wellington), J. Melling (Auckland), H. M. Cotton, ancl N. B. : M'Cullan (Christchurch). D. Boxer (Hastings), Gr Aldridge (Napier), H. M. Haycock (Palmerston North), and. D., Seymour (general secretary). - The resignation of tlie • president (Captain Pitt) was received, Jind Mr. j. D. Harper was appointed actingpresident, pending tlie next annual conference of tlie association.

The decision of the Government that the new scale of separation allowances should not bo retrospective was considered at length. Delegates were strongly of opinion that the difference between the increased allowances and the old allowance ought to be made up to the wives and children of men who were now at the front or who had already returned.

The executive decided that it viewed with great disappointment tlie action of the Government in treating volunteers less generously than balloted men, and that representations should be made to the Ministers, with the object of having the new allowances made restrospective. It was decided also to urge Government to appoint a representative of the returned soldiers to the War Pensions Board without further delay, and to ask that' the person selected should ho a member of the association or the nominee of tho association.