LEGISLATION FORECAST.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 175, 24 June 1935, Page 10

LEGISLATION FORECAST.

“BURNED OUT” EX-SOLDIERS. Reference to the legislation forecast by Hon. W. Perrv, at the annual meeting of the \\ellington Returned Soldiers’ Association, is made in the annual report of the rv.Z.. R.S.A. The report states that the needs of prematurely “burned out” men is, without doubt, the most important matter that has come before the association. . , “The committee has drafted a Bill in an endeavour to set out the circumstances and requirements, from the N.Z.R.S.A. point of view, jmd it is proposed to first place this uetore the ex-soldier members of Parliament, then to send it to all members of the House and finally arrange for its presentation in the House. This will take time, but it is confidently expected that full consideration will be given to the Bill before its presentation to Parliament. In the meantime’ specific cases of prematurely aged and ‘burned out’ ex-service-men are being collected from local associations and recorded as supporting evidence. “This subject is, without doubt, the most important that has come before the N.Z.R.S.A., ns it not only deals with the incapacitated now, hilt , provides for those who will possibly need such assistance in the future and, this being so, the desirability of the full support of all ex-servicemen, at the present time, is considerably in creased.”