BRITISH WAR PENSIONS
STATISTICS FOR TEN YEARS, vliritish OHicial Wireless.) RUGBY, Dec. 19. Major Tryon, Minister of Pensions, in a. memorandum, states that :CBGO,()GO,(XK) will have been expended tin pensions by March next. Uneipployineiit among disabled ex-service men excluding those totally incapacitated, is less than f> per cent of the total number of men pensioners. War pensions expenditure in the year ended March .‘il last amounted to about £60,009,090, and for the current year would total £07,009,000.
A. comparison of the aggregate expoudit lire on war pensions of Frame, Germany and tlio United Kingdom tor the ten years since November. If,IS. shows that 'France has spent £ 100.000,000, Germany BJJO.OCO.ODO. and the United Kingdom £787.0t>0,000. As to cost, of administration, the* total sum so ahsorhed in ten years was not more* * than £368,000, or 4.2 per cent. Pensioners number at present alhont 070.000, making together with dependents, wives and families, about 1 ,;i(.0,00' persons.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1928, Page 5
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