PENSIONS FOR WAR NURSES.

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 112, 5 February 1919, Page 6

PENSIONS FOR WAR NURSES.

Shi,—l have never seta any suggestion that something be done for the war nurses, many of whom have gone through so much, with absurdly inadequate recompense. Doubtless they will, in due course, get some sort of medal, as will rjrobably everyone wlio lias worked for the great cause. Take 'the case of. the Marciuette. There were nurses rescued who will suffer from the experience for the rest of their days, and surely some recognition is due for all this? True, there were men also who suffered in that vlisaster, but. a man, whether in the water or out of it* is on a vastly different looting. If it were in my gower to do so, I would give a life pension of, say, ten shillings a week to every woman who joinmi the forces in the capacity of a nurse, stnd irrespective of her rank. I'll be bound' to say there's not a soldier boy wlio would not say it 6hould be even J! In week! In any case, the cost to the country would be a mere trifle, relatively, and soldiers and civilians alike could only feel that there was no worthier list of pensioners than these noble women:— I am, otc, JTJSTICIA.