BOER WAR VETERANS
LAND BENEFITS WANTED
(BITELSGIIAPH.— PRESS, A93OCIAHON.)
WANGANUI, This Day. Messrs. Veitch and ■ Glenn, M.P.'s, ■were waited on to-day by a big deputa- . tion from the South African Veterans' Association,- which asked their ■ assistance in having the benefits of the Discharged Soldiers' Settlement Act exterided to the veterans of the Boer War. It was stated that the Premier had given a ' promise in the House of Representatives that this would, be done wheir all the. returned soldiers • had been dealt ■with. The deputation pointed out that the': South Africans had. already waited twenty years.j-and the-matter should-..he-dealt with without further delay. ■ The meljiber's ga.v.eia jsjtmpathj&tiE hearing ; and promised eveif, assistance}* in; theii' pb.wer. It is xiriderstopd. that siitjilar represen;tations will'.-bfi>-;ma<J^tiy'-'th'e Smith Afritan', Assb<;ia"tipr]s v:-iri^otßl^*'part^T6f "the' Dominion^ ?v(V.r r'\>-'-^.yv^.;;"""''.:' " )
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 120, 21 May 1920, Page 8
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129BOER WAR VETERANS Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 120, 21 May 1920, Page 8
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