BRITISH PENSIONS
A HUGE SUM
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, May 8
In a debate in the Commons on the vote of tlie Ministry of Pensions, Mr Tryon (Minister of Pensions) said the vote was still almost the largest single vote for any of our great departments. The Ministry’s work affected a weekly budget df about a million families, the number of their beneficiaries being about 1,500,000. At the end of the current year we shod Id have spent since the beginning of the war (in the last 14 years) no less than .113 million on war pensions. He had taken pains to ascertain how this compared with the expenditure ol other great countries who along with ns wore most heavily engaged in the war. He found as compared with our 913 millions that France spent approximately 400 millions. Unlike other (countries we had adjusted our scale of pensions to meet the enhanced price cost of commodities, so the pensioner should not sillier.
lie estimated for the next 10 years the expenditure on pensions would he about 45 millions a year. Mr Bridgemnn (First Lord of the Admiralty) staged it had now been defiitely decided that the Air Ministry should take over Pembroke dockyard as an nii" station. The development ol any other base had to be a gradual progress.' He understood Hu Minister was proceeding with the preliminary arrangements.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 May 1929, Page 6
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