WAR WIDOWS
SEVERAL PETITIONS FOR RELIEF [From Odr Parliamentary Reporter.] WELLINGTON, October 16. The Defence Committee of the House -of Eepresentatives, reporting on several petitions for relief, made some general recommendations of importance to-day. Dealing with the petition of the widow of a returned soldier, who asked for a pension in consideration of her husband’s war services, the Defence Committee referred the matter to the Government for consideration, with the suggestion that, owing to the of cases of elderly widows in distressed circumstances coming before them, the plight of such widows be considered when dealing with the coming national superannuation scheme. In connection with another petition from a war widow, the Defence Committee suggested to the Government that the position of widows of soldiers who were drawing the disability pension at the time of death be investigated with a view'to the widows being provided for in a similar manner to the widows of miners under the pensions law.
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Evening Star, Issue 22471, 16 October 1936, Page 10
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158WAR WIDOWS Evening Star, Issue 22471, 16 October 1936, Page 10
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