SERVICE GRATUITIES.
SPECIAL PROVISIONS.
TO MEET HARDSHIPS,
(Special Correspondent.)
WELLINGTON, This Day.
An amendment to the Military Service Amendment Act, recently passed, ,was introduced by Vice-Rogal Message in the House yesterday. The amendment was accepted and embodied in the Act without being read to the House and without any member ask, ing what was its effect.
The new clause gives extended authority for the payment of the war I gratuity and is intended to meet cases of hardship that have been mentioned in the. House during the session. Where any person eligible to receive the gratuity has died after the passing of the Act' of 1918 (authorising tho payment) without having received the gratuity, the Minister of Defence is to be permitted ,at Ids. discretion, to make the payment to' the personal representatives" of the deceased person. Discretionary power is given also to pay tho gratuity due in respect of the service of a deceased soldier to any relative or to a person who was charged with the maintenance of the deceased soldier in his infancy.
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Northern Advocate, 21 October 1920, Page 2
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