The Assistant Secretary,
Board of Trade,
Insurance & Cos.
COPY
A. Allison,
724
43, Ramsgate Avenue,
Bondi, N.S.W.
12th July, 1949.
Sir,
I have the honour to ask that you will be kind enough to give the undermentioned subject your very favourable consideration.
I understand that in parliament that the Honourable Harold Wilson President of Board of Trade, had decided to grant to those who lost all their homes a certain amount of compensation.
May I please submit our case, my wife is a permanent cripple fractured thigh & bedridden. age 72, myself 76 heart trouble and leg from an old war wound. May I point out Sir that i served in four wars, S.A. 1899, Relief Pekin 1900 to 01, 1914 to 1918 also some fighting in Hong Kong.
I made an application to Canberra with a complete list of the contents of the 9 roomed house that i rented in Hong Kong, this place was beautifully furnished with all my life saving with the intention of taking in three guests at any time mostly bank people. The value was over 69.9900 dollars H.K. The whole of this was taken by the Japs.
The situation here in Australia is this. I am not eligible for old age pension as i have not resided in the country for 20 years, but they sent me in front of a magistrate who granted us the sum of one pound per week each as an invalid pension, in granting this they took into consideration that I was receiving 2/9 per day military pension.
Owing to the bad labour trouble prices of things makes it almost impossible to carry on, and I wrote quite recently on the advice of the magistrate to the High Commissioner for U.K. at Canberra to ask if he can help.
/In