GRATEFUL EX-SOLDIERS

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15319, 21 August 1923, Page 5

GRATEFUL EX-SOLDIERS

MANY SAVED FROM RUIN

BY THE SESSION'S LEGISLATION,

MINOR AMENDMENTS SUGGESTED

(By Telegraph.—Special to Times.) WELLINGTON, Monday.

Appreciation of the warmest kind in regard lo the Soldiers' Settlement Bill was voiced to the Prime Minister by a deputation from the Returned Soldiers' Association representative of all parts of New Zealand. They had come, they said, for a somewhat different purpose than for the past live years when they had criticised what the Government had done. To-day they desired to express gratified appreciation to the Government and to the country, which they asked should be conveyed to Parliament, for that splendid piece of legislation, the Discharged Soldiers' Settlement Bill. They had gone through the bill clause by clause, and came to the unanimous opinion that it would save many soldiers from ruin and bankruptcy, and give them fresh hope, and an opportunity for making good. Their gratitude was tempered with the suggestion of some minor amendments to the Settlement and Pensions Bills, to which the Premier was sympathetic. and he later announced in the House that he had referred the points to the Crown Law Office to secure an opinion.