RELIEF FOR EX-SOLDIERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23362, 30 November 1937, Page 6

RELIEF FOR EX-SOLDIERS

ASSESSMENT OF ALLOCATION Mr P. Neilson, M.P., has received the following letter from the Minister of Labour (Mr H. T. Armstrong) with reference to the assessment of ex-ser-vicemen's relief allocations: — Following receipt of your recent representations on behalf of ex-service-men, I have given further earnest and careful consideration to the question of ignoring for relief purposes the value of any monetary or other assistance received by the men fronr the Returned Soldiers' Association. I have pleasure in advising, therefore, that it has been decided that in future any assistance received by soldier relief recipients from the Returned Soldiers' Association by way of cash or kind, or employment, from funds raised by the association for that purpose, will not be taken into account when assessing a soldier's relief allocation. I trust that the additional assistance thus afforded will ameliorate somewhat the difficulties which are at present being experienced by unemployed exservicemen, who, in many cases, are severely handicapped in their search for employment by their war service.