EX-IMPERIAL SOLDIERS
ASSISTANCE FROM HOME FUNDS REPRESENTATIONS TO BE MADE (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, March 12. During his tour of New Zealand General Sir Alexander Godley has taken a keen and sympathetic interest in the problems of ex-servicemen and the New Zealand Returned So'diers' Association has arranged to furnish him with information relative to ex-Imperial soldiers resident in this country with a view to prosecuting the claims of the dominions for assistance from the war relief funds available in Great Britain.
" It is a burden we cannot very well carry," stated Mr S. Harrison, general secretary of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association. "They take the stand at Home that when a man goes overseas he automatically becomes a citizen of the country in which he settles and that that country should be responsible for his welfare." Mr Harrison said there were 20,000 ex-Imperial men in New Zealand who were eligible for assistance from the local funds. Since 1927 the various funds have expended at least £230,000 on exservicemen generally. The canteen fund, which had been built up to £250,000, was down to £IBB,OOO at the beginning of last year.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22519, 13 March 1935, Page 6
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