PENSIONS FOR CONTINGENTERS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue XXXVI, 30 September 1902, Page 2

PENSIONS FOR CONTINGENTERS.

WELLINGTON, This Day. Tho Military Pensions Bill extends the operation*! of the Military Pensions Extension to Contingents Act, 19C0, to the Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, and T- nth NewZealand OonUnge 4s. It also proposes to rupeal section 40 o tbe principal *ct, md to substitute a clause piovi ing that tbe Government may from time ta time appoint a board consisting cf not less than three medical practitioner, whose duty i; shall be to inquire into every claim for a pension o gratuity in respect f a wound or injury received in the actual performance of military duties or in respect of the death of any officer non-eonimisßioned officer, or private, who died in New Zealand, and report thereon tu the (iovemor* Ko snoh pension ©r gratuity is to dd granted except on the urraDi-iiouß recomaiondati o„ of this Board "With regaid to the conditions under I -*o Ac^ or 1d66, under which a pension may be granted to awi lew, the Uil provides that instead of it bei g necessary for the d9ath having taken place | " within tix months of his being fit Bt cer'ti . Jto be ill." It shall be a condition that ho tniitt have " first have been remo vt il from duty on accoant of such ill- . ness. provided that illness i=* certified to hare coinmoDCfd during, and as the resultof active operations, or if he died in j consequence of injuries received in the ! performance of militT- duty otherwise than ia action, withiu twelve months after ha ving* boen injured." The pensions grafted uDdcr the principal Act to widows whose husbands were killed, and in cases where tbe father whs killed ia action, are extended to include those who within twelve months died of their wounds. A. similar extension 10 proposed to cases where tbe bu band or father died fiom illnes- cout-aced in the fleld.