SECOND DIVISION LEAGUE

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 89, 14 April 1917, Page 5

SECOND DIVISION LEAGUE

P^AY AND PENSIONS.

(BI TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

. TIMARU, 13th April The executive of the South Canterbury Second Division League has had drafted a platform and proposals in regard to pay and pensions. The platform is non-political, the league to help the Government to carry out the Military Acts, arid endeavour to secure adequate pay, allowances, and pensions for all soldiers and dependents, and cooperate with other leagues. The proposals to 'be submitted, to a general .meeting include that the pay of a. private shall not be less than 7s 6d a day, and Is separation allowance for his wife and Is 6d for each child, from the day of enlistment. The pension, it ia pro^ posed, shall not be less than the soldier's pay in service; for total disablement the amount of death pension, plus £1 a week; for partial disablement an allowance to bring the income to equal that of total disablement; the government to pay soldiers' obligations as defined by the Regulations of 16th January, 1917 (not exceeding £2 per week). Membership of the league is open, to all over twenty-one.

In connection with the formation of the Second Division League, a public meeting is to be held on Thursday evening next, in the Concert Chamber, at 8 o'clock. The committee set up when the league was formed recently will submit t&B draft constitution and Tules for the approval of members of the Second Division.