PENSIONS APPEAL BOARD.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18572, 26 November 1920, Page 4

PENSIONS APPEAL BOARD.

WELLINGTON R.S.A. PROTEST. [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, November 25. The executive of the Wellington Re. turned Soldiers’ Association passed the following motion:—“ That this association notes with strong disapproval that the Pensions Appeal Board set up under tho Finance Act last session, is a medical appeal board only, and does not give a soldier or a dependent) the right of appeal on general grounds from tho decisions of the War Pensions Board. Further, this association regrets that no provision has been made to enable an applicant to-be represented in placing hri cose before the board as fairly and fully as possible."