TO ASSIST SOLDIERS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17329, 18 November 1916, Page 14

TO ASSIST SOLDIERS.

1 [Per Press Association-.] NAPIER, November 17. , At, a special meeting of the Hastings Patriotic Society the following tion .was unanimously adopted : ' I hat the rovenue derived from the excess profits tax should lie partly or wholly set aside as a special fund, apart from the Governmont pension scheme, to a.->-rist soldiers and their dependents, so that the men rwho are lighting our battles may not be deprived by Act ot Parliament- of the help and assistance a grateful public would have given them.” ' "