WAR PENSIONS EXCLUDED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23365, 3 December 1937, Page 11

WAR PENSIONS EXCLUDED

FARMERS’ LIVING EXPENSES ■; _________ fv WORK OF ADJUSTMENT COMMISSIONS ■ f n (From Our Parliamentary Report**) - WELLINGTON, Dec. 2. “The decisions of the adjustment j commissions are judicial decisions ; and as such are outside the jurisdiction of the Government,” said * the Minister of Finance (Mr W. Nash) in reply to an urgent ques- >; tion asked by Mr H. E. Herring : (Govt., Mid-Canterbury) in the : House of Representatives to-day. Mr Herring asked the Minister if he would give instructions to the officers of the State Advances Corporation handling the returned soldier business before the adjustment commissions, that any pension received by returned soldiers was not to be regarded as income when the y assessment of living expenses was under consideration. ? “ I am advised that it is not the v policy of the State Advances Cor-’ poration to take pensions into account when computing income for ■' farm purposes, but I will examine ,r the whole procedure,” replied Mr Nash. “In accord with the G9Vernment’s policy and corporation > procedure, the fullest consideration is being given to occupiers of land >• under the Discharged Soldiers „ Settlement Act, and this policy, with the maximum of generous ;> treatment to bona fide cases of ,r' hardship, will be continued” o