SPECIAL RELIEF.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 10527, 4 December 1916, Page 6

SPECIAL RELIEF.

FOR WLN IN KHAKI. An important, announcement. regarding the question of mai im> peeiaj, provision tr enable soldier, to discharge flieir civil obligations wa% Hindi- by Ik" lion. James Allen, Acting-Prime Minister on Saturday. Speaking (o a I'ross representative, -Mr Allen slated that (here appeared to bo ti o*ooel deal of misconception icgai-ding tin position. M" was wholly ,*,uiipathetie- witii (lie proposal of making special provision <>> British liio to enable soldiers to moot housi rent., life insurance, premiums, etc., but. In was miablc to take a loan in the dark, lit had lii-i to ascertain the special clifliciiltioE that required to be met. and I lie best way ol doing this was through tho Military Service Boards, which were now beginning their sittings. The Military Service Boards, accordingly, had been requested to make a special report on cases of hardship disclosed as a result of appeals on the first ballot. '1 here would thus be no delay, and he hoped to bo in a position within a month’s time to place definite proposals before Cabinet. Xo legis lation would be necessary lb give ellect It them. Tile regulations oniltodying these provisions would be prepared, and. if ap proved, would be brought into force as

early a-; possible. Mr Allen concluded by siding i liai ho was just as anxious as anyone else to plain malloi's on a sal i.-faciorv footin';', ami he till sure he could say the same lot the rest of the menthol's of Cabinet.