WAR PENSIONS
$ —. .' I AWARDS THIS WEEK. The Pensions Board investigated 52 claims for pensions this week', 49. froiij soldiers and three from dependents. To soldiers 18 pensions and 28 allowances were granted, and one application was declined and two adjourned. Following were the rates of pensions' granted:—Two at £91, two at £78, seven at £52, one at £39, and six ■at £26, a total charge of £897 per year. The pension previously granted to a soldier's mother w«s increased from 10s. to 15s. per .week. ' Pensions of ss. per week each were granted to two children of a Maori soldier killed in notion, and a pension of 7s. per week to -the orphan child of a soldier. To date 599 claims have been received from soldiers, and G29 from dependents. Following are particulars of pensions granted:—One hundred and seventy soldiers' pensions amounting to £87-14 per year, 113 widows' and children's pensions amounting to £10,025, and 1 435 pensions to other dependents amounting to £12,970, making in all 71P pensions and. a total annual charge of; £31,739. :
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19160310.2.33
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2716, 10 March 1916, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
176WAR PENSIONS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2716, 10 March 1916, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in