A VETERAN IN DISTRESS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 12584, 3 October 1908, Page 7

A VETERAN IN DISTRESS.

Mr Jennings hrs given notice to ask the Minister of Lands whether he will give effect to the Waste Lands Committee's recommendations — made in the session of 1896 — to the effect that the claim for compensation for military service made by John Henry Walker, ex-member of the Wellington Rifles, and late bugler to the Kaiwharawhara Rifles, be referred to the Gofivrnment for favourable consideration The petitioner took part in most of the engagements during 1868, was present at Te Ngutu o te Manu, and saved the lite of Lieutenant Rowan in that disastrous engagement. Walker has been deprived of earning his living as a native interpreter, owing to the regulations being too stiff for him to pass, and if something is not done, says Mr Jennings, there is nothing out starvation in front of him.