INVALIDED SOLDIERS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13978, 7 January 1916, Page 7

INVALIDED SOLDIERS.

LODGING ALLOWANCE .

[United Press Association.]

Wellington, Jan. 6,

The Defence Minister' informed a reporter to-day that the lodging allowance recently granted to-.returned soldiers undergoing medical treatment had been made retrospective. Invalided soldiers who had arrived -in the Dominion before the allowance was authorised, and were otherwise qualified to receive it, would be paid the money as from the date of their landing in New Zealand. A lodging allowance of 2s per day is paid to all soldiers undergoing treatment. The Minister mentioned that the allowance would be paid to men who applied for it. The Defence Department could not undertake to ascertain without application what men were entitled to payments.