NEW PENSIONS DISTRICTS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 98, 12 May 1937, Page 9

NEW PENSIONS DISTRICTS

-Pre's'i Assodatlon.)

Caused by Increased Work.

(By Telegrapn

WELLINGTON, Laat Night. : The substantial increase .in the population of the North Island and the pensi.ons legislation last session have • increased the work of the branch offices of the Pension's Department. The Miniister of Pensions (Hon. 'W. E. Parry) etated to-day that tho. increase of work inade it necessary to rearrange the dis•trict bo'undaries and establish two new ibranch offices. The "new offices would be at Whangarei and New Plymouth, The rearrangements of the districts, showing the counties included with the number of civil pensions current in thern', was as follows: — Whangarei district: Mangonui, Whangaroa, Hokianga, Bay of Islands, •^Whangarei, Hobson, Otamatea, Rodney (3249).' ' Auckland district; Waitemata, Eden, Franklin, Manukau, Coromandel, Thames' (16,280). •• •• • Hamilton district; Waipa, Waikato, Raglan, Kawhia, Otorohanga, Taumarunui, Ohura, Kaitieke, Ohinemuri, Piako, Matamata, Hauraki Plains, Rotorua, Taupo, Tauranga, • Opotiki, Whakatane (5629), • I Napier district: Cook, Waikohu, Waiapu, Matakara, Uawa, Wairoa, Hawke's Bay, Waipawa, Waipukurau, Patangata (4096). New Plymouth' district; Clifton, Taranaki, • Inglewood, Whangamomona, Stratford, Hawera, Waimate West, Eltham, Egmont (2534), Wanganui district: Patea, Waitotara, Wanganui, 'Waimarino, ' Rangitikei (2334). . Palmerston- North district: Kiwitea, Oroua, Pohangina, Manawatu, Kairanga, Horowhenua, Akitio, : Dannevirke, ■ Weber, Woodville, Pahiatua (3124). • Wellington district: Hutt, Makara, Wairarapa South, Featherston, Masterton, Eketahuna, Mauriceville, Castlepoint, Chatham Islands (8640). : The alterations to be made, added the jMinister, will facilitate easier persona! Icontact with the pension applicants who will be less inconvenienced and whose claims will be established more expeditiously. •