EX-SERVICE MEN
ALLEGATION REGARDING PAYMENT OF. PASSAGES DENIED. London, June 21. Newspaper cables from Australia report that the Director of Immigration at Melbourne states that the British Government paid passages of ex-service men without the Australian Government having selected them. The Overseas Settlement Committee denies the allegation, and asserts that there is not a single case of granting a passage without endorsement, either by the State or Commonwealth representatives, since the system was inaugurated on April 8, 1919. The committee admits that prior to that date ex-service men were granted passages from the King’s Fund, now exhausted, without reference to the Governments. These probably numbered some thousands for the whole of the Dominions. That system has now been discontinued. . The Overseas Committee lias investigated the allegations that ex-service men were returning to England, but the inquiries failed to discover more than fifty among eight hundred passengers, most of whom explained that they were returning for personal and domestic reti-sons.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 230, 23 June 1921, Page 5
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161EX-SERVICE MEN Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 230, 23 June 1921, Page 5
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