WAR PENSIONS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2617, 12 November 1915, Page 6

WAR PENSIONS

I ♦ | SUMMARY FOR THE WEEK. ) r The War Pensions Board dealt with 50 applications for pensions at its sitting this week. Of fifteen soldiers who applied, one ) was granted a pension, of £52 a .year, j one was granted £26 a year, nine were given allowances, and four cases were adjourned. Of the dependents applying, 31 were granted pensions, one was granted an allowance, aniiiifip.aisplications were de. clined. Two of the applications declined were those of the father and mother of a soldier killed, and the board was satisfied that they were not in fact i dependent on the son who was killed. ■ The other application refused was from the mother of a soldier. In her caso • it was proved to the satisfaction of the board that slio had never been maintained by her son. Furthermore, her husband, from whom she is separated, is in regular employment, and is making her a fixed allowance which the hoard considered ample for her needs. Several applications have been received already from young wives who -married soldiers on the eve of their departure. One young woman who had married a sergeant five days before he sailed was granted a pension of £52 per year. She is quite unencumbered, and she is living with her parents. Applications for pensions as dependents have been made by persons now drawing the old age pension, the widows' pension, tho Maori war pension, and probably there win yet be applications from someone drawing tho miner's pensions under tho Act of last session. Tlie pensions granted this week were as follow: — To soldiers'. One at £52, one at £26. To dependents: One at £130, one at ' £96, two at £91, two at £78, two at £65, three at £52, five at £39, fourteen at £26, one at £13. Tho thirty-three pensions granted amount to £1500 per annum, and the total valuo of _ all allowances granted - was £190. This latter amount is not s an annual charge. In every caso. the t allowance was of a definite amount per week for a period of three months. 3 ___________