WIDOWI' PENSIONS
(By Telegraph-Press Association.) Cliristchurch, December 12. At to-dny's silting of the North Canterbury Melhotlist Synod tlio followisg motion was carried: "That this synod urges upon the Government the necessity of raising the amounts paid under the Widows' Pension Act so that a widow and children shall bo able to live upon the sums granted, and also states its conviction that a widow's receipt of payment from some other pension or superannuation fund should not make her ineligible to : receive help from the Widows' Pension Fund." On tho same subject the Government was urged to mako provision for the proper maintenance of widows and fatherless children caused by the recent epidemic.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 67, 13 December 1918, Page 5
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112WIDOWI' PENSIONS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 67, 13 December 1918, Page 5
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