FUNERAL EXPENSES
EX-SERVICEMEN
POSITION EXPLAINED
The attention of Dominion headquarters, New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association, has been drawn to the statement of Sir G-. S. Richardson regarding the burial of Imperial exservicemen as paupers and making a suggestion, that the National War Funds Council should agree to allow the establishment of funds, by deduction of a percentage from each monthly grant which is made for relief of unemployment, such funds to bear the cost of burial of indigent Imperial ex-service-men. .''".'.. . * "There is,V states the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association," absolutely n0.,-need for, the establishment of a fund for this purpose as provision has been made for the payment of burial of all ex-servicemen, who otherwise would be buried as paupers. "In the event of the death of an ex-serviceman, who served with the N.Z.E.F. or with a New Zealand contingent in the South African War, and he, or his dependants, are. indigent or destitute, application to the nearest Registrar of War Pensions for burial will enable tho interment; to be carried out in a proper manner. The cost, where indigence is proved, is borne by the New Zealand War Pensions Department. '' Similarly, on the death of an exservTceinan of the British or' Imperial Forces, or men who served with the Forces of other parts of the Empire, tho cost of interment, where indigence is shown, will be borne by the New Zealand Government. In the latter category application should also, be made to the nearest Registrar of Pensions. "The New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association wishes this position to be made known. The information is. accurate and in accordance with the definite promise given per medium of Ministers of the Crown some years ago, that no man who fought for the Empire would be buried as a pauper. Only last week payment was made by the Now Zealand Government for the burial expenses of an Imperial ex-service-man who died in indigent circumstances in Hawke's Bay."
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 142, 13 December 1933, Page 11
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324FUNERAL EXPENSES Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 142, 13 December 1933, Page 11
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