WAR PENSIONS
BRITISH AND NEW ZEALAND PROVISIONS interesting comparisons . (Contributed.) In February,, 1917,. Mr. G, ,X. Barnes, ,11.P. (Labour), British Minister of.Pen,K'.oi ri, ine-st-ntcd to the ilouso of Com:mons the. draft Royal Warrant ■ and GVdcr.-jn-Council which -proposed to bring ■ii'.lo operation; on April..!, 11)17; the (amended scheme of British pensions.. The [proposal was approved-by. the House, and till Innately, with one or two aniendIxiientd, came into force on-the date speci."fied...As the result of the liberal provisions then made for non-commissioned officers, private, soldiers,- and their demondants, the Royal Warrant of December 1, 191-t, which regulates tho pay, -appointment, promotion, and non-effective 'pay of officers, of the Imperial Army, on Retirement .on .account of medical unfit-
ness' caused by military service, was revised, ami- a Royal Warrant consolidating and amending the provisions concerning -the retired pay of _ officers disabled, the pensions of the families and relatives-of officers deceased, and the pensions of nurses disabled in consequence of'the present war, was embodied in an Armv Order of the War Office, 'bearing date' August IS, 1017, taking clTcet as from April 1, 1917.-
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 78, 27 December 1918, Page 7
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180WAR PENSIONS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 78, 27 December 1918, Page 7
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