PENSIONS CLAIMS

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 3997, 11 April 1933, Page 7

PENSIONS CLAIMS

EFFECTS CF WAR SERVICE CASES IX DFNEDIN iPw I’resa Association). Dunedin, April 10 Tile annual ‘report, jot The Dunedin Returned Soldiers’ Association says that the effects of war service are only now becomingl evident in a, •‘lent nnu,y eases. Tile association Ims dealt with an ever-iucreasing number of claims for war pensions, economic pensions, war widow’s pensions, and also Imperial claims in cases sponsored by the secretary. Of appeals 58.02 per cent, were upheld. In many of these cases pensions had been granted for the first time. “Several out'standing successes were obtained during l the pant year of the association,” stated the report, “one case being that of an ex soldier who was suffering from a fractured spine, and at the December sitting of the War Pensions Appeal Board he y.-as granted a pension. At this

(sitting four cases received penj sions dating back to 1931. in j the ease or one widow’s claim which was brought, to a successful conclusion with the War Pensions Board, Wellington, j this was dated back to 1926, the I amount received by the, widow running into four figures.”