EARLY VOLUNTEERS
THE INCREASED ALLOWANCES QUESTION. (81 (TJEIBaRAPa.—I'HESS ASSOCIATION.) NAPHSR, 4th December. The president of the Sew Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association, Mr. C. W. Batten, commenting on the rejection of the claim for the wives of 'early volunteers to receive the same allowance* as Second Division reservists, says: "The Returned Soldiers' Association cannot accept the 'reason given by Mr. Massey, who states that this just claim is repudiated' because of the huge sum I'equired for repatriation purposes. Two million five hundred thousand pounds is provided for this work, and practically the whole of this sum is to be repaid by returned soldiers. Is £2,500,000 advanced on loan afc current rates to returned soldiers it 'hu^e sum' when compared with tbo £I^ooo,ooo given as a .war bonus to Civil servants?"
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 136, 5 December 1918, Page 4
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129EARLY VOLUNTEERS Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 136, 5 December 1918, Page 4
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