OLD AGE PENSIONS.
ALLEGATIONS OF FRAUD—LIBERAL . REPLY. . NATIONALISTS RESENT INQUIRY. : (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS, ASSOCIATION—COPIRIGHT.) (Uec. May 15, 0.3 a.m.) - London, May 14. ' ; In tho Honso of Commons, Mr. Hobhouso, Financial Secretary , to the Treasury, stated; that s.ince January 1300 pensions had been withdrawn in-Britain and 120.0 in Ireland.. The inquiry was ; unfinished, but so far any suggestion "of fraud on-: the part of the people of Ireland was without foundation. " ■ Tho Secretary for Ireland, Mr. ' Birrell stated that' out of 12,776 applications for pension, 10,891 had beou rejected, and 1885 pensions had 1 been granted. V; The Nationalists hotly. attacked the . Government for. haying : ordered the. investiga. t-ion. '.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 508, 15 May 1909, Page 5
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108OLD AGE PENSIONS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 508, 15 May 1909, Page 5
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