SOLDIERS’ PENSIONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21980, 15 June 1933, Page 8

SOLDIERS’ PENSIONS

DELAY IN SETTLING APPEALS CLAIMS’ BOARD’S SUGGESTION (Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND, June 14. The abolition of the War Pensions’ Board and the institution of two boards to take the place of the present War Pensions’ Appeal Board is advocated by the’ executive of the Auckland Provincial Patriotic and War Relief Association. Reporting to the executive meeting the Claims Board said there were several cases of extreme delay in determination by the Appeal Board of applications for pensions. It was felt that in justice to the claims of many delayed cases the Claims Board must make such grants as would keep the applicants from want during the waiting period. One case was cited in'which seven months had elapsed from the time of appealing, and the case had not yet been determined. As the Appeal Board had left Auckland it was probable that another three months would elapse before the case was completed. A modification that might be to the advantage of all would be the disbanding of the ordinary War Pensions’ Board and the institution of two boards to take the place of one—one board acting in the North Island and one in the South Island.

It was decided to endorse the Claims Board’s suggestion regarding the pensions board and to make representations to the Government on those lines.