“A FOUL SCANDAL"
pensions rumor denied,
[From Our Parliamentary Reporter.]
WELLINGTON, July 19. " It is a foul scandal to spread a report of this sort,” declared Sir Heaton Rhodes, Minister of Dofcuco, in the House to-day, under tiio impression that Mr O’Brien (Westland) had said that an instruction had boon issued by the Government to the Soldiers’ Pensions Board to cut down pensions.
The Government, said Sir Heaton Rhodes, had never issued instructions to this hoard, which was a statutory body, and took no instructions from Ministers. Tho Government accepted its ruling and cheerfully paid; and if there was an increase tho Government accepted it. There had never been even a hint that pensions should ho cut down. Mr O’Brien explained that the report of his remarks clearly showed that ho had said there was a growing feeling amongst returned soldiers, which ho did not say was well founded, that tho Pensions Board had received instructions to cut down pensions. Tho Minister of Defence had misunderstood him.
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Evening Star, Issue 18332, 20 July 1923, Page 4
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