WAR VETERANS' ALLOWANCE
(To the, Editor.)
Sir,—As a returned : soldier, lam writing 'to protest; against the insufficient and unjust' allowance given to veterans under the above Act. After .the soldier: has proved himself unfit for permanent employment, the Government gives him an allowance of £1 per week for himself, 15s for his wife, and 5s per week for his child, providing he does not earn or have an income exceeding 15s per week, making in all the maximum income allowed £2 15s. Now the tnan that stayed at home and saved his health and his wealth receives £4 per week as a minimum livingiricome, and the sky is the limit to the maximum he can earn.: The soldier, because he has been to the war, been wounded, arid lost his health, is expected to live on £2 and keep his wife and child. Why should he be restricteci and handicapped? Why not give him and his family. £2 a week pension and let him earn £2 per week, making £4 in all, the same as the men who stayed at home? I am surprised that the R.S.A. has not protested. There is a change coming, and the people of New Zealand 'will get a surprise. A country: is only as great as it treats its soldiers (Italy proved this), and New Zealand let her- soldier sons down badly.—l am, etc., . ; V, J. BILLINGTON. Trentham. :"'..-.'
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 32, 6 August 1936, Page 8
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WAR VETERANS' ALLOWANCE
Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 32, 6 August 1936, Page 8
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