SOLDIERS' WIDOWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVIII, Issue LXXVIII, 25 July 1919, Page 5

SOLDIERS' WIDOWS.

CHRISTCHUBSir,, July 24. meeting of the CMnfcerbury Rejpatnation Board a teleggifain was read ifrom.Mr J. D. Gray, secretory to the Ministerial Repatriation (Hoard, as foltows:: "il'be Wellington papers have a Kitess Association message staging that a. <<Jase hardship has arstsor! rowing to a vsoldiei\£ "widow desiring tt-o ; return to E^land, and being made to pay the £&) ticjc inposod by the Jiraperiul Government oi>. women entering tthe iUritish Isle*. This statement is mot > understood. ;So?far as the Crovernnaanttfeiows no ste>h 'irSt,^ is payable, nobody has ever heard oof it Jbefore, and the suggestion appears itto :be a hoax. As a aiaisiier of fact tlise latent advice received from &he High Qsanm'issioner is that the Imperial Ministry of has agreed, in | certain specified c-ases of hardsteg', *toj transport soldiers' widows desirisag (to j return from "New Zealand to Enpantl afc 'troop rates.1' " Tfoe chairman (Mr A. "W. Jamieeons) j said the Board received its vtnf ormatiott from a reliable -sonrce, and h§ did not! think that tlrey wore the victims of a; hoax. The matter was referred to the! Sustenance CbJiwHin^ee for further con-1 i sideration.