RETROSPECTIVE ALLOWANCES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 29 May 1919, Page 5

RETROSPECTIVE ALLOWANCES.

CHRISTCHURCH, May 28. bir Jas. Allen attended the Returned Soldiers' Conference this afternoon, and the matter of retrospective allowances was gone into with him. ...Sir James said there had been a difficulty owing to the Imperial records. He recognised the unfairness of paying only from the date of embarkation, and his estimate was based on the date of going into camp. He proposed to pay in June what had already been agreed on, and, if the conference could suggest a way out, he would pay from the date of attestation, but this would be a second payment. In regard to children's allowances, the conference could discuss the matter, and Cabinet would give its decision full consideration. So far, however, he did not think retrospective allowances to children were justifiable.