R.S.A. CONFERENCE.
fpER Prf.ss Assnor vti >n 1 DUNEDIN, June 11. The Dominion Conference of the Returned Soldiers’ Association resolved yesterday that the incoming executive bhouki bo instructed to intimate to the Government the keen disappointment felt i that the Anzao Day Act declared April 2o a statutory holiday without at the same time making it a close holiday. It was further resolved that the executive be instructed to take the iioctssixiy to Becure an .amendment .to the Act m this direction.
Other resolutions congratulated the Returned S< ldiers and Sailors Imperial League of Australia on the determined stand taken against disloyalists. It was decided to take no further action in the case in which a police officer made improper use of the badge of the association, the Commissioner of Police having promised that it would not occur again. QUESTION OF PENSIONS. DUNEDIN, June 11. 1 The morning session of the R.S.A. Conference discussed pensions, and resolved that the pensions schedule covering specific injuries should be regraded because of anomalies, and that the Government should be urged to set up a board of medical experts for regrading. In view of the financial situation conference decided not to press for a 75 per cent increase in all pensions, confining such application to the case of pensioners drawing amounts over the 50 per cent maximum. It also asked that all temporary pensioners should be forthwith re-examined and re-classified. It was resolved also that the principle which should govern pens'ons is a sliding scale determined by the Statistician’s indexes of the cost of living, £55 10s being a fair maximum for 1921. In relation to Mr Harper’s representation of the association on the Pensions Board a resolution was unanimously carried: “That this conference, having heard a confidential statement of its representative on the Pensions Board and hein" fully satisfied, congratulated him on his excellent work for returned soldiers and their dependents.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16451, 13 June 1921, Page 5
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