CABINET SITTINGS.
SECOND DIVISION MEN.
(Special to the Herald.)
; .;. r WELLINGTON, this day. •Cabineb has been sittirig- long hours dealing with important business, including a separation allowance to- Second Division soldiers. /The question is 5 likely to ; reach finality at to-day's meeting.At' present it.is uncertain >yhether Cabinet will increase the separation 'and children's, pay, or adopt the alternative of empowering^ /.tho- Soldiers'- Financial Assistance Board to make more liberal grants. It is believed the latter scheme, if administered on generous . lines, will do -.moi'e' to meet the greatly -varied conditions of reservists than ah. increase m the flat rate payable as a. eeparation allowiinc^. i ' '■•V^'" u*i> -'■■<■'• v - y - i: ' ■"
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14590, 27 April 1918, Page 5
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110CABINET SITTINGS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14590, 27 April 1918, Page 5
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