Pension Refused
Sir, —We are almost deafened by the Labour Party and its constant iteration that nothing is too good for the soldier, etc.; in fact, that none of us would exist today if it. had not been for our New Zealand fighting forces.
Listen to this simple story: My son was wounded during a desert battle and thereafter spent 16 months in hospital, lie suffered from skin poisoning, eczema, something which affected many soldiers in Egypt. He has recently returned to civilian life, hut made formal application for a war pension and an economic pension. Tile official reply was as follows: “'The War Pensions Board . . . is unable to authorize an award in your favour, as it is considered that there is no evidence that any present disability suffered is attributable to or aggravated by your military service.” Can you bent that for a subtle, cynical attempt to take away all pension rights whatever? I can say'that at no time of his life prior to' enlistment did this soldier suffer from eczema or skin trouble. —I am, etc., ME TAEDET. Napier, September 19.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 307, 22 September 1943, Page 6
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183Pension Refused Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 307, 22 September 1943, Page 6
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