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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 162, 6 July 1918, Page 1

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"A man should not be penalised" for his whole life because he is a. little backward in his courting," said a member of the Wellington Returned Soldiers' -Association at a meeting the other niirbt. Ho explained that under the existing law a-returned soldier' drawing a war pension on account of some disability incurrea on active service can get a pension for Ms wife if he marries within two years o? his discharge. The recent conference of returned soldiers at Auckland dead- , ed to urge that the time limit should be removed, in order that, partially-disabled soldiers might be enabled to marry, »™L. assist in improving the birth-rate. --, The importance of keeping busy,.and working to benefit someone,else .as . an antidote to anxiety worry; was <v emphasised recently by Major Dobnev, ' Salvation ■■ Army : social secretary." ; in" an address given to wives of Auckland men a* the ■■g™}:The speaker said she had W ; t Borb J. onlv a few mciths before tlhei war, had : travelled through Belgium, Italv, _and Switzerland, and later on through-JiiiC--land, Canada, and the tfnoted Mates,,.,., while prior to coming on to IMew Aea- .-••■ land she' had- been working among the women of the Far Eo*t.. In hpt tra- : vol"* she had been much impressed ov the way in which, the women of all nations'were taking up war-seiwico. Ihe.. work of the munition-makers! and other - women-workers in England was such a» to make the whole Empire proud dt them, and one of 'the chief povnte about them was their grea£ resolutionr-it thev could not gelt one class of work they set about doing something else.;!* was this spirit which was moulding anew the-character of the women of the nation, and she could give to *he women present no better ad'vico thau to' trv to follow this example, to occupy their minds'with the duty of the moment, to lose no time on yesterdays sorrows or to-morrow's fears., but '*°;.. t take an interest in, some ' uee.f uj work,, w and in it sink the worries and troubles' ;', that beset women of all nations at the present moment.

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