HIGHER RATES
COMPENSATION TO SEAMEN
AND FISHERMEN
(British Official \Vlreles3.)
RUGBY, March 31
Opening Grimsby's first civil restaurant, the Minister of Pensions, Sir Walter Womersley, paid a high tribute to the gallantry of the merchant seamen and fishermen who daily risk their lives in order to keep Britain supplied with essential foods.
The Government, he said, fully realised the country's debt to these brave men, and in appreciation had authorised an improvement in the compensation scheme, at rates equivalent to those paid to the Navy, for seamen and fishermen disabled by war injury and pensions for. the wives and dependants of those who lost their lives.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 78, 2 April 1941, Page 10
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106HIGHER RATES Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 78, 2 April 1941, Page 10
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