WAR SERVICE
EX-IMPERIAL MEN PENSION ARRANGEMENTS (Per Press Association.) .. INVERCARGILL, last night. 1 ' Ou the occasion of the visit of the Duke of Gloucester, to Invercargill, representations wore made to him through Captain Kerr, on behalf of disabled . Imperial ex-servicemen wjio were not in receipt of a pension. The facts of the ease were communicated by the ex-imperial Soldiers’ Social Club, of .Invercargill, to Captain Sir Arthur Curtis, private secretary lo the Duke of Gloucester,’and bu his return to London His Royal.High l ness carried out his promise to place the matter before the authorities concerned. The president of the club, Mr It. H. A. Smith, has received a letter forwarded to General Sir Howard Vyse from the British Ministry of Pensions. Summed up briefly, the. position regarding Imperial ex-scrviccmcn in New Zealand is that arrangements are in force whereby any application iu respect to disability attributed to war service, can still be considered, notwithstanding the lapse of time since the termination of the war. The preliminary investigation of such applications is carried out in New Zealand oil behalf of the British Ministry of Pensions by the Commissioner of Pensions at Wellington to wliotfi particulars must bo furnished in the first iusta nee.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18757, 13 July 1935, Page 8
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203WAR SERVICE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18757, 13 July 1935, Page 8
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