THE CANTEEN FUNDS.
Sir,—ln your issue of June 13 a correspondent, "Fading Fast," makes referonce to veterans' homes, etc. I wish to endorse every word he says. A proposed veterans' home was turned down by 80 per cent, at the last voting of the Returned Soldiers' Association. ' Why' not a scheme of pension on an actuarial basis, which would give every man attaining the age of 55 £3 10s per week. I mean to use all canteen funds, patriotic, Red Gross and other funds arising from the last war. Let them be pooled into one channel, say, the Pensions Department, and do not try to keep an overpaid staff, eating the capital. M. Burns.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20902, 18 June 1931, Page 14
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114THE CANTEEN FUNDS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20902, 18 June 1931, Page 14
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