SOLDIER’S PENSION

Grey River Argus, 28 April 1932, Page 3

SOLDIER’S PENSION

BAR TO RELIEF WORK. MR. HOLLAND'S STATEMENT. (From Our Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, April 27. In the House to-day, Mr Holland asked Mr Coates whether it is his intention to arrange that there shall be no reduction in the amount of relief work to the returned soldiers who are in receipt of war pensions. One returned soldier in the Buller electorate he said, a married man with four children, was recently notified that he would have four days work per week at 12/6 per day. This with hi? war pension of 15/- per week, would have made it possible for him to make bedrock provision for his family. Later on. however, he was notified that, because of his war pension, he could only be given two days work per week. As the result of correspondence with the Unemployment Board, the soldier was eventually notified that he might have three days work per "week but the Buller allocation left him with only two and a-half days per week for three wqeks out of four. His rent was £5 per month and it was utterly impossible fo rhim to maintain ■his family of six on what was left. This case was typical of many others. I Mr Coates said that he hoped to maKc a statement on the whole pos» tion shortly.