Somq information -furnished by' tlie Hon. A. M. Myers, Minister in Charge of Pensions, shows how expeditiously this Department, with its wide ramifications, has'been brought into full operation. On August 12 instructions wero given to the Commissioner of Pensions, who had been appointed secretary of tlm War Pensions Board, to draft regu : lations and prepare the necessary forms; on-. August 26 the regulations wero gazetted, and on August. 30 every • post office , and railway station in Now Zealand was prepared to provido forms of applications,- aud the 72 registrars of pensions in New Zealand had been fully instructed. The War Pensions Board on September 2 granted the first pension, and from then, until September 18 the board received fifteen claims from disabled .soldiers and thirty-one from dependants, and dealt finally with five of the former and six'of the latter.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2577, 27 September 1915, Page 6
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139Untitled Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2577, 27 September 1915, Page 6
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