PENSION COMMISSION.
INQUIRY WANTED. (Part Press Association.) WELLINGTON, March 27. Speaking at. t he unveiling of a memorial board of honour to members of the Pensions Department who had enlisted and those who had made the supreme sacrifice, the Hon Sir Heaton Rhodes spoke of the administration of the pension legislation. While it was difficult to satisfy everyone, he said, the Government had tlone their best to administer the Pensions Acts noi only justly but’ sympathetically. They had attempted to meet the wishes of the Returned Soliders’ Association when that body requested the setting up of an Appeal Board, but it now appeared that the board was not giving general satisfaction. When the Prime Minister returned from England, a deputation waited upon him and requested him to appoint a Commission to inquire into the genera] working of the pensions scheme and the scale of the pensions, and Mr Massey had promised *o give tho matter sympathetic consideration. On the suggestion of Mr Massey, »t had been decided to set up a Coinmission, and ho (Sir Heaton Rhodes) was now in consultation with the offieem of his Department as to the form the Commission should take.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16694, 28 March 1922, Page 7
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195PENSION COMMISSION. Star (Christchurch), Issue 16694, 28 March 1922, Page 7
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